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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h

NEW: A judge slammed the Trump administration for corrupting what has long been the DOJ's "crown jewel" — its Civil Rights Division. The ruling, which blocked the department's sweeping hunt for state voter data, rebuked its invocation of laws meant to safeguard minority voting rights.

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Judge rebukes Trump administration for perverting pro-voting mission of DOJ’s ‘crown jewel’

Sooknanan traced the Civil Rights Division’s history from its creation under President Dwight Eisenhower to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1957, calling it the DOJ’s “crown jewel.”

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14h

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17h

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18h

The Trump administration has removed crucial reporting requirements, making it easier for ICE to try to escape accountability when people die shortly after being released from their custody. No one should die because of ICE's dangerous detention conditions.

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Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump

Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff on Kimberly Guilfoyle: "Why is she spending so much time with this Greek energy lobbyist? She's partying across Europe after begging donors to bail her out financially and conducted herself in a way that seems to be deeply unethical."

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John Cockrell @patsox23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

reverse the curse? Why are you even giving it any weight at all? We've got to deal with this right now! Like you're frantic that some HEX has been put on your city. That sounds as bananas as the guy saying, "Hail Satan!"

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The victory over Reconstruction was not confined to one state. By the last decade of the 19th century it was complete. The violence was targeted, and the terrorists won. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core

Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Volume 83 Issue 2

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You just knew there was an example from her time as a Fox News pundit where Kim Guilfoyle called for investigations and criminal charges against Democrats for "racketeering" and "corruption" because they were "influence peddling" and "willing to sell access." www.mediamatters.org/kimberly-gui...

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FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026

Don’t forget: billionaires are using their grip on social media and the news to convince us that peaceful protests don’t work, our vote doesn’t matter, and that both parties are the same. They’re spending billions on it.

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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 08/10/2026

Danny Miller and Steve Silverman, organizers of Justice in Motion, discuss what they learned from taking judges on the road to connect with the communities they serve.

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To protect democracy, judges need to get out of the courtroom

Danny Miller and Steve Silverman, organizers of Justice in Motion, discuss why they took judges on the road to connect with the communities they serve.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission

The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 05/10/2026

Break a pipe? Call a plumber. 🔧 Break a leg? Call a doctor. 🩺 Government broken? Doug Chapin says it might be time to hire a policy nerd. 🤓 Meet Doug Chapin, running for Congress in MN-06 and bringing years of public policy experience to the job.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

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Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's a way to build more affordable housing and provide rent relief without raising any new taxes. And you can make it happen by voting YES on Prop C on November 3rd.

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Take the time to listen to Jerrad speak. Listen to his evolution. And support this good human in his efforts to do the right thing for all of the people of Ohio Congressional District 12.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 08/10/2026

"You're not gonna mess with our elections." Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, the top election official in the state, pushes back on President Trump's claims of election fraud.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)

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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.

With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not a scam. Definitely not. Giving you zero return after investing many millions of dollars. Lemme guess. Digital Jenny McCarthy makes bloated buggy code that needs to be double checked by a human anyway

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This story just keeps going and keeps going. These messages!

Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things. It's really dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me on signal.
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In January 2025, weeks after her nomination, she complained that Deters had told a producer on her podcast about their deal.
"It's unbelievable when we have a private arrangement with you that you would now
CC a producer talking about money," she said. "Do not say we have any arrangement."

It's unbelievable when we have a private arrangement with you that you would now CC a producer talking about money

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

a note: if you'd like to read this story without repeatedly watching footage of violent arrests, you can click to disable the videos at the beginning

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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminder: Fiona Hill foreign affairs and Russian expert, testified before Congress stating she received many death threats and was forced to leave Europe. Over the "perfect phone call" Trump made to Zelensky, release the Mueller Report. This is not hyperbole, he speaks like a mob boss. #VoteBlue

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NEW: I spoke with a Canadian YouTuber who was visited by police after building a Flock-style camera designed to record the license plates of cop cars. 'My impression was that they weren’t familiar with many of the controversies or examples of misuse in the United States.' san.com/cc/he-built-...

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He built his own Flock-style camera to track police. The police didn’t like it

A YouTuber was visited by law enforcement after he built a Flock-style camera designed to record the license plates of police vehicles.

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Alex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US.

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I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸

This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other.

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order.

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.

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Jacob Kang-Brown @jkangbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New analysis of ICE detainers and arrests in 2026 with @bson.bsky.social for @prisonpolicy.org shows that law enforcement collusion tends to expand ICE arrests, and that the mass deportation project falters in places that resist. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/10...

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Cooperation with ICE doesn’t stop community arrests: New data on the results of state strategies

The Trump administration has demanded local and state collusion on immigration enforcement, and promised to pull back on community arrests in return. But our analysis ...

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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Anti-democratic actors use fear to cut us off from our humanity & agency. The work of this moment is to refuse that narrative & reclaim our power. Thanks @eramshaw.bsky.social for the conversation, hosts @LBJLibrary First Light Books, First Baptist, & Austin for using your power! Onward.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nothing to worry about all good

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

RIP the quiet part

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/10/2026

What I find frustrating on here is that I'm trying to cover how AI will end closed source software as we know it and people are just reflexively thinking that I'm somehow promoting or endorsing it. This is a massive shift in how a lot of society will interact with software going forward.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am not in a position to be able to evaluate these, but at least some of the results appear to be significant. Below is a Claude summary that was posted elsewhere of some of the more prominent problems addressed.

An unreleased OpenAI model claims to have solved hundreds of open math problems. The 5 biggest:
1. The Riemann Hypothesis (partial)
• It makes the biggest step in a century toward math's most famous unsolved problem.
• It would let us predict how prime numbers are spread out far more precisely.
2. The Unique Games Conjecture
• It proves a central question in computer science, open since 2002.
• It would settle how close computers can ever get to the best answer on hard problems like scheduling and routing.
3. The matrix multiplication exponent
• It finds a much faster theoretical way to multiply large grids of numbers, the core math behind AI and graphics.
Fifty years of human effort produced only small gains; this is a big leap.
4. Hilbert's 16th Problem (partial)
• It answers part of a question on David Hilbert's famous list of great problems from 1900.
• It proves that simple systems can only produce a limited number of repeating cycles.
• A computer has checked every step of the proof.
5. The Hodge and Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures (partial)
• It makes major progress on two of the seven $1 million Millennium Prize problems.
• Neither is fully solved, but either result alone would define a mathematician's career.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is almost certainly happening far more than we're hearing about it.

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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 06/10/2026

Vietor: That stopped me in my tracks. A great politician talks about who they are, where they come from, and how their bio informs the things they care about and fight for. I thought it was really powerful and hopefully can cut through in a way that usually interviews don't.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We allow monsters to rule us

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’ Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording. www.theverge.com/column/10056...

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We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’

Soon, asking “Does this device have a camera?” won’t be good enough.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the past year, Norma had parked her camper van outside Delaney Hall. Converted into a mobile clinic and offered health checks. She encountered a wall of two dozen ICE agents in paramilitary vests. She felt her body fling through the air. Now she seeks justice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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This nurse was assaulted by ICE – and it was caught on video. Now she wants her day in court

Norma Bowe, 68, was flung to the ground at Delaney Hall, the infamous New Jersey detention center. She sees her lawsuit against ICE as one step towards justice

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

👀⚖️🧊🇺🇸

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/10/2026

I swear, if the Democrats won't campaign on "The president says major American cities getting nuked is a small price to pay"

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026

just did a quick google "San Diego is the heart of U.S. naval and Marine Corps power, home to more than 115000 active duty service members and a $52.6 billion military economy."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026

More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade have been recalled for failing to declare the presence of synthetic food dyes. The recall affects 28-ounce bottles of Gatorade Lemon Lime, Lemon Lime Zero, Orange and Orange Zero, according to the FDA.

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More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade recalled for undeclared food dyes

The drinks contain Yellow No. 6 and/or Yellow No. 5, which, in rare cases, can trigger allergic-type reactions.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social )

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