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Karla Meza

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another international cbb player, this one from China, has been abducted by ICE. DHS says he will ‘self-deport.’ His lawyer says he was traveling to sort visa issues when he was taken. One report suggests “it’s a delayed paperwork issue with the university.” www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
A Mississippi Valley State men’s basketball player has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Qingfang Pang, a junior power forward on the Delta Devils, is in ICE custody at the Richwood Correctional Center in Richwood, Louisiana, according to the ICE database.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...
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New York Daily News @nydailynews.com · 07/10/2026
A Trump-appointed federal judge ripped federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for giving false sworn testimony and records to justify the violent mistaken-identity arrests of two men in the Bronx, one of whom was a U.S. citizen.
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Federal judge blasts ICE agents for false testimony, bogus warrant, in wrong-ID Bronx arrests
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Angela Watercutter @waterslicer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Huge story here from @dmehro.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @awinston.bsky.social. A must-read.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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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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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!
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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts
Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They are competing to say howlingly racist things to grab attention and drum up the hate in advance of the election. This is what they're running on.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/09/2026
I know we're all tired of the "they just said it out loud" shtick but it feels noteworthy that the secretary of defense is articulating the Garrison State as an explicit objective of the American christian fascist project.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
After two decades, the U.S. formally withdrew from Iraq, leaving behind a battered nation trapped between the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation cost nearly 4,500 U.S. lives and killed more than 115,000 Iraqis, according to the most modest counts. trib.al/E3sCiNB
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
fucking hell
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this guy can barely talk, folks
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If any non Fox reporter gets an interview with McMahon they should ask her to explain what it is that she thinks AI does and how it works
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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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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 29/09/2026
Andy Hawkins went to check his voter registration status on the Bolivar County circuit clerk website and found that the website's designer, Magnetic Arrow Designs, has been hacked. He's concerned that the circuit clerk's website itself has been compromised. buff.ly/AwuofO9
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Bolivar County Circuit Clerk Website Designer Hacked By Foreign Gambling Company
Voter Andy Hawkins discovered Bolivar County circuit clerk’s website designer has been hacked by a foreign gambling company.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This reads as a threat
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt asks Jack Smith to tell him what he's writing down in his notes, but then even he realizes he went too far and says, "never mind"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Rep. Greg Murphy on Republicans' pitch to voters: "I'm betting on the understanding of the American people that tough times need to be gone through to get to good times"
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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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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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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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who suggests we just turn the page is in league with the GOP. This guy is telling you they tried to overthrow the government. You don't just pretend it never happened @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
CBS: The Army is requesting military planning aimed for Cuba. Is the US preparing for military action? STATE DEPT SPOX TOMMY PIGOTT: We're always going to guided by the national interest of the US. The president has a wide array of options (Not a no!)
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cases 3-5 Mahamat Said Abdel Kani Alfred Rombhot Yekatom Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona — Central African Republic Each convicted for crimes against humanity, appeals pending
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Case 2: Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri — Libya Held for crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder, rape, torture, and other inhumane acts, enslavement, and persecution
2. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri — Libya
Who: An alleged former senior official of the Special Deterrence Force (also known as RADA) and Mitiga Prison in Tripoli. He exercised direct authority throughout the prison and direct control of its women’s section, which also held young children.

Crimes: On July 16, 2026, a three-judge Pre-Trial Chamber unanimously confirmed 17 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes, including murder and attempted murder; rape, attempted rape, and other sexual violence; torture, cruel treatment, and other inhumane acts; enslavement; imprisonment; outrages upon personal dignity; and persecution. The alleged crimes concerned thousands of detainees at Mitiga Prison and other locations in and around Tripoli between May 2014 and June 2020.

Status: In ICC custody; trial scheduled to begin May 4, 2027.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
President Trump-Rubio are reportedly preparing to unleash sweeping sanctions to cripple International Criminal Court. One potential consequence: The release of some of the world's worst criminals held by the Court. Case 1: Philippines' Duterte held for crimes against humanity
justsecurity.org
Proposed U.S. Sanctions Against the ICC Could Lead to Detainees’ Release
A list of individuals currently in ICC custody awaiting trial or judgment, who could be released if U.S. sanctions dismantle the Court.
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: DOJ is recruiting military lawyers for October prosecutor posts supporting immigration related law enforcement surges in Manhattan, LA, & Sacramento, per Pentagon email reviewed by @BLaw. I’m told this is unheard of for SDNY. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Seeks Military Lawyers for New York Law Enforcement Surge
The Justice Department is enlisting military attorneys as temporary prosecutors supporting law enforcement surges in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, according to a Defense Department email rev...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This ruling affirms what we've long known to be true. The holding room conditions at 26 Federal Plaza are completely deplorable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
who once what
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This administration has a clear pattern – skim funds, cut programs, and raise costs for everyday Americans… while they get everything they need and more.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 23/09/2026
A top DOJ official reportedly told managers in a conference call that federal prosecutors who decline to pursue investigations of alleged voter fraud could be terminated. This is yet another indication that Trump is trying to bend the DOJ to his will.
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Top DOJ official warned that prosecutors would be fired for not pursuing alleged voter fraud, according to sources
In a conference call among senior officials came a directive to prosecutors: Go after election fraud cases presented to them or risk termination. The Justice Department denies a threat was made.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 23/09/2026
Just a reminder to any senator saying Don Jr. is not selling access to the presidency: Don Jr. started a private club called Executive Branch within months of Trump retaking office, with appearances by Trump cabinet members. How much more obvious does it need to get?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They are shipping F35 parts with UPS
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23/09/2026
"Trump plans to use this monstrous new facility to dazzle donors and fête the strongmen he so admires. In clear, bold visual language, the ballroom declares 'I am the state.'" (from October 2025) www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-loeil-...
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Trump L’œil: The White House Ballroom, MAGA Aesthetics, and the Meanings of Trump’s Newest Building Project
Trump, the tacky and chronically bankrupt real estate developer, and Hitler, the failed artist who was too bad at math to try his hand at architecture school, are alike in at least these ways. A love ...
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