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Votebeat @votebeat.org · 01/09/2026
If a voter is on the suspense list in Texas, it DOES NOT mean that their voter registration has been suspended or canceled. It means that election officials need to confirm their address. Here's how to check your Texas voter registration and ensure your information is up to date:
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Voters on Texas’ suspense list haven’t been kicked off the voter roll
Election officials need to confirm their address, but registrations in suspense haven’t been canceled.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Republican primary voters are so racist that a guy named Tom Smith who DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE is going to defeat Trump’s endorsed candidate because his name is Amir Hassan.
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Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
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Pixar's Layoffs Came Days After Receiving a $26 Million Tax Credit. So I Wrote California Officials.
State tax incentives should create and retain jobs for Californians, not subsidize corporate layoffs.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/07/2026
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/06/2026
Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI
Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 26/05/2026
Quiet part out loud. Again. newrepublic.com/article/2108...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Let this radicalize you
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This is a senator L. Louise Lucas appreciation post
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This is pure, unadulterated preference falsification under authoritarian rule — @timurkuran.bsky.social getting it right yet again… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
nytimes.com
White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
…..WHAT?!?????? www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentag...
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV’s Ambassador With the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Nancy Pelosi has called for President Trump to be removed from office
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
OH HELL YES. NEIL GORSUCH, THE LAST JUSTICE OF THE MOCHICANS, ASKS "Do you think Native Americans are citizens of the united states." IF YOU TRIP GORSUCH'S NATIVE AMERICAN WIRES, YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY, SIR!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Obviously, we haven't yet heard from Cecilia Wang on behalf of the plaintiffs. But the #SCOTUS birthright citizenship argument is shaping up as a blowout against President Trump. I count at least seven votes against the executive order just in the questions to Solicitor General Sauer. Maybe more.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The danger grows each time ICE is used in ways it’s not supposed to be. Video: xcancel.com/rpsagainst.....
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Carrie Levine @levinecarrie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Dallas voters will apparently be able to use countywide voting for the runoff, per new statement from Dallas GOP head Allen West. The party forced the use of precinct-based polling places for this month's primary, setting off confusion. More: www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/03/2026
A Pentagon recruiter openly offers corruption: “unmatched access to top-level government officials and privileged information flow — whatever you need, you can get.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...
nytimes.com
Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon
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Kim A @krimblebee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Embarrassing for Paul Weiss that they capitulated
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."
washingtonpost.com
This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage.
Massive investment in AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Your regular reminder that the Supreme Court granting criminal immunity to presidents is an anti-constitutional abomination…
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
That...is not why it's called that
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Kim A @krimblebee.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hmmmmmmmm
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 10/02/2026
2020 twitter post from @actioncookbook: "Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end"
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Kim A @krimblebee.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
They’re making a spectacle of their cruelty. Essentially saying, visibility will not save you. They have no capacity for shame
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Paging William of Ockham…
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS:

TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION

"Slip the switch" by flipping it while the trolley's front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Neighborism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Strikes can be phenomenally powerful. They are also extraordinarily difficult to pull off."
wagingnonviolence.org
What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but they require an organized majority, solidarity and resources to weather repression.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“I can’t look my daughters in the eye and say I’m running as a Republican, when they’re pulling over Hispanics and Asians because of the color of the skin and what they look like. I did not sign up for that.” GIFT LINK: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The Lawyer for the Agent Who Shot Renee Good Thinks ICE Has Gone Too Far
GOP candidate Chris Madel is dropping out of the Minnesota’s governor’s race, saying national Republicans “have made it nearly impossible.”
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Kim A @krimblebee.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Abolish ICE abolish ICE ABOLISH ICE
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest. DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir. That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Re:
In Re: United States of America
No. 26-1135
Dear Chief Judge Colloton,
I apologize for addressing this letter to you, but, for reasons I will describe, I do
not have any other option.
I am working from home today, as the program that my mentally disabled adult son attends each day is closed because of the extreme cold At 11:34 am, I received an email regarding Case No. 26-1135, entitled "In re: United States of America." The order in its entirety read:
The motion of the United States to seal is granted. The Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota is invited to file a response, at his discretion, to the petition for writ of mandamus. Any response is due by 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 23.
This is the first that I have heard of any petition for a writ of mandamus. The
United States did not have the courtesy to tell me that they would be filing such a petition, nor did the United States serve the petition on me. I am unable to access any documents in Case No. 26-1135 because, at the request of the United States, the case is sealed-apparently even from me. So I have been given about two-and-one-half hours to respond to a mandamus petition that I have not read and cannot read.
Apparently I am supposed to guess what the petition is about and guess what
the mandamus petition says and then respond. I will do so.The Honorable Steven M. Colloton
January 23, 2026
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On the evening of Tuesday, January 20, the United States presented an application for eight arrest warrants to Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko in connection with the disruption of a religious service at Cities Church on Sunday, January 18. Judge Micko was the magistrate judge who was on duty at the time. Judge Micko found there was probable cause to issue warrants with respect to three of the suspects but not with respect to the other five.
Minutes after Judge Micko signed three arrest warrants, the U.S. Attorney
notified me that his office wanted a district judge to review Judge Micko's decision -either by hearing an appeal of that decision or by considering the application de novo. The first thing I did is ask our Clerk's Office to randomly assign a district judge to consider the government's request. I was the judge who was randomly assigned.
It is important to emphasize that what the U.S. Attorney requested is unheard of
in our district or, as best as I can tell, any other district in the Eighth Circuit. I have surveyed all of our judges — some of whom have been judges in our District for over 40 years —and no one can remember the government asking a district judge to review a magistrate judge's denial of an arrest warrant. I have also surveyed the chief judges of all of the districts in the Eighth Circuit. I have heard back from almost all of them, and all of those responding have said that, to their knowledge, no district judge has ever reviewed the decision of a magistrate judge to deny an arrest warrant. The reason why this never happens is likely that, if the government does not like the magistrate judge's decision, it can either improve the affidavit and present it again to the same magistrate judge or it can present its case to a grand jury and seek an indictment.
On Wednesday, January 21, I informed the U.S. Attorney that because he was asking me to do something that was unprecedented, and because m…
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One thing authoritarian regimes do is establish impunity for government officials who break the law on their behalf
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/01/2026
From a decade ago, March 2016. And now here we are. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/don...
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Opinion | Is this the end of the West as we know it?
We may be two or three bad elections away from the end of the liberal world order.
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