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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.
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Lia @iliadele.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Baby Yaga 🏡
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The Winter Den @thewinterden.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Never enough baba yaga houses! #babayaga #procreateart #witchy #art
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Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 19h
The first round of the @wnba.com playoffs across all networks averaged 1.30M viewers per the league, making this the most-viewed first round of the WNBA Playoffs ever. Viewership is +37% over last year's first round.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h
Given the rest of the financial news it looks like they’re high fiving each other about how the plebes get 7% mortgage rates
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h
I don't think the Republican Party can "go back to normal" but if it did, that just means being a vehicle for undermining government and concentrating wealth, enveloped in a bunch of dishonest obfuscatory slop. Why yearn for something to return to the exact thing that fostered it
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh brother.
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Still crazy that we’re here because Zalslav decided he wanted to cash out. WBD didn’t need to be acquired. It was just his ticket to a massive payday. And even then, Ellison’s Paramount won WBD after Netflix realized the federal government was never going to let its deal for the studio happen.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
To be clear, these are strategic assets. They are nuclear-capable heavy bombers. This isn't some special forces A-team that got exposed and had to break contact. It isn't a planned redeployment. These are strategic U.S. military assets being run off the battlefield in Europe because of Trump.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you turn your military around and flee from an advancing adversary equipped with weapons you're unable to defend against, that's retreating. I'm not sure we've seen anything like this in the modern era.
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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft from British Air Base (Gift Article)
According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'll tell you one thing: The woke military under Obama and Biden never retreated from Iran's military
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Toby Jones @tobytobyjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As someone working mostly on Cartoon Network shows, this will be the THIRD merger I’ve lived through. The previous two fucking sucked. I’m sure this next one will be great though
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fun story about one of the first dogfights between the Zero and Hellcat. The attack on 10/5/1943 was the biggest carrier raid of the war so far, 3 fleet carriers and 3 light carriers. Flight ops were a mess so planes began heading to the island captured by the Japanese in December 1941 on their own🧵
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The law prohibits me from saying what I think should happen to everybody involved in this payment (besides, you know, bro who got it unsolicited, dolla dolla bill)
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is so unsurprising that the NY Times miscounted the number of Trump press secretaries to join Fox News. Leavitt makes 3, not 2: Kayleigh McEnany is a current host, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a Fox contributor between the end of her WH tenure in 2019 and her 2021 run for Arkansas gov.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Justin Kadel @justinkadel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I highly recommend watching MARJOE if you can. I couldn't look away
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is a powerful article. Infuriating how every time the trucker was trying to find empathy for Pierre and Haitians in general, his girlfriend and mom kept intervening with some racist logic or conspiracy.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 04/10/2026
I get why some folks miss it, but women are the majority in Christian fundamentalist denominations, and in a lot of cases are the “intellectual” backbone for a lot of conservative men.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2026
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent and branded a “domestic terrorist” by DHS — all for just warning her neighbors and speaking her truth during Operation Midway Blitz. She deserves true justice and accountability from the federal government.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People will roll their eyes at this over the combination of The Atlantic and the "well well if it isn't the consequences of my vote" genre but it's good that he feels this kind of shame, that's how a human should feel and Trump's power is built on people with no remaining capacity for it
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Sym @symmering.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm sorry, Hilary. The PWHL has determined that Las Vegas & San Jose are Detroit's rivals, not Hamilton & Toronto despite only being a couple hundred miles away. (The Hamilton Spectator - 10/3)
Hilary Knight is one of the most celebrated and successful hockey players of all time.

What’s on her mind at the moment? Among other things, the potential for a rivalry between new PWHL expansion franchises in Hamilton and Detroit — her latest squad.

“I think we were actually just talking about it. Who’s our rival? Is it Toronto? Hamilton?” the all-time leader in U.S. Olympic goals and points said with a smile.

“I think that would be awesome if we had a very natural cross-border rivalry where fans can easily come to Detroit or into Hamilton,” she added.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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Professional Shitposter @bcbonds.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Gonna be even cooler when Dems tell them to eat shit and indict their leadership on RICO charges
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
$36 billion to the teamster’s pension in particular wasn’t enough to get regular Democrat support out of them.
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A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Classic republican, can’t tell if someone is the wrong age to try to pick up
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 04/10/2026
Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fact that a few friends and family members of the president just kinda wander the world soliciting billion-dollar bribes ostensibly to "end wars" is a real "it would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening" sorts of deals
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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redthespian - EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR @redthespian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ALL conservative men are throwing a fit over the Cornell case, but the fear it seems to have inspired in Matt Walsh specifically tells me that there are likely a staggering number of skeletons in his closet. Grotesque pig of a man.
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A Modern Venus @gritsyross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The point of vaccinations is to prevent this exact thing. It’s the perfect time to protect yourself and neighbors against COVID and flu.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Perfectly in keeping with RFK’s eugenic strategy.
Kennedy has echoed these points in remarks like the ones he made last year, after a six-year-old Mennonite girl died from measles.
"It's very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person," he said, adding that "we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don't have good nutrition or who don't have a good exercise regimen." Texas officials told The New York Times that the little girl had been healthy before she contracted the disease.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system" @bachynski.bsky.social
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A 20-year-old Amish woman with leukemia got measles and died in Pa.’s largest outbreak in three decades
After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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MS NOW @ms.now · 03/10/2026
LIVE NOW! MS NOW will serve as the livestream destination for Power to the People, featuring performances by Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen & more. WATCH NOW at ms.now/powertothepeople
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Sym @symmering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To illustrate the absurdity of the PWHL's alignment decision, three Eastern Conference teams have only one west coast trip scheduled, all the games lumped together in the same road trip (BOS, HAM & NY). Detroit will have at least five separate trips out to the Pacific.
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