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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h
Breaking news: DHS sped up training for police officers making immigration arrests by scaling back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws and real world scenarios they might encounter, according to emails reviewed by the Post.
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Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You might also be aware that gymnasia predate modernity by around 2,000 years, so it isn't 'modern day' work that is the issue.
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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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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)
Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose theSecond screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what we're watching them attempt to do. Keep the FORM of elections -- so they can claim, "we won fairly!" -- while preventing elections from being free or fair.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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Amy Littlefield @amylittlefield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wrote a whole book about the complexity of the motives behind the overturn of Roe and how misogyny wasn’t the only factor but moments like this make clear IT SURE WAS A BIG ONE
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i’ve noticed recently that when i’m having an in-person conversation, i feel this internal pressure to make my point faster/a perception that the other person is growing impatient. and i realized it’s because we’re so used to getting info in quick clips now that a longer explanation feels foreign.
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Adorable” does not capture the magic of this story.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No notes
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The most pressing example he could come up for the bill to end daylight savings- the PGA tour!
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
So if you actually care about restorative justice, the thing I beg you to start doing in these cases is CENTERING THE FUCKING VICTIMS. And not demanding that people immediately jump to how they can best not ruin the man's life.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026
Restorative justice doesn't mean "nothing bad ever happens to you." It means, "in determining what happens from here on out, we center the needs of your victim to repair what happened to them over your own needs."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Notice how they also brag about the number of naturalizations having plummeted; a sign of how much they detest legal immigration. /also, the removals number is largely fake. The actual number is 650-700k.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Professional accomplishments of the last few weeks: Helped negotiate a major contract to expand high-speed internet to rural neighbors. Found appropriate instance in a meeting to yelp, “Light the lamp, not the rat!”
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Rizzo & Gonzo: Light the Lamp Not the Rat!
Alt: Scene from “Muppet Christmas Carol” where Gonzo as Charles Dickens fails to take proper fire safety precautions and injures Rizzo the Rat, causing Rizzo to shriek a classic line, “Light the lamp, not the rat!”
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The right is claiming the accuser changed her story. This is not really true — she said she was raped in her initial police statement. But insofar as she was more reluctant at first and it took her time, experts I spoke with explained this is common. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
tbf, he's a good choice if lethality is what you're going after. He's responsible for more foreign national deaths over the last year than the US military is able to achieve in years. :(
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Two years ago… bsky.app/profile/saba...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
* checks the news * aaaand speaking of the Supreme Court abusing the shadow docket
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The city he grew up in was considered the kind of place that had all the things we didn’t. They were held up as one of the beacons of what life COULD be like, if you just did what you were supposed to. We envied the access and resources of their students. Why do so many of them want to die now?
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
Just going to park this here
Steven Pifer @steven_pifer •4h
I spent 27 years with the State Department.
People there know exactly for whom they work.
This tweet is beneath you, Matt.
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The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employe...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/09/2026
I believe the Constitution provides a remedy for Congress when the President doesn't follow his constitutional appropriation-spending requirements!
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just did a dramatic reading of this for my wife, who is mentally well enough to not be chronically online and so has sadly missed this for 17 years.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The thread quote-posted below is a difficult read about the working environment in at least one Silicon Valley social/professional (they don’t seem to be particularly distinct here) circle. And to be clear- this should not fly in *any* industry.
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Jeremy Pober-geist 👻 @jpober.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Both 1) a liberal arts education does not prevent someone from becoming evil on the individual level, and 2) society in general is better off with more people having such educations Are true
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Even with the best telescope in the world, you can’t see the North Pole from the South Pole. You can only imagine, & since real imagination is a lot of active & ongoing work, many will opt instead for caricature, which they will then conflate with essence.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ROTFL.
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And… this is why we need HR bureaucracy.
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 26/09/2026
We’re hearing about AI loss of control incidents almost daily. This time the targets were US government websites like the Department of Education, Census Bureau, and SEC. Congress must take action to protect the American people, doing nothing right now is wildly irresponsible.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The headlines on the SCOTUS SAVE ruling are doing Trump's PR for him. 2 things they skip No mass voter purges before the midterms. The law bars them 90 days out & we're in that window Noncitizen voting? FL, IN, IA & OH ran voters through SAVE & found almost NOTHING -TN
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The Big Lie aka La Gran Mentira
This analysis exposes Donald Trump and his allies’ disinformation campaign around immigrants and voting.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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ksiegel.bsky.social @ksiegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The AUDACITY.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
Yeah, what psychopath would want his name on a building associated with an assassinated President
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So Politico is a threat to national security because they quoted CBS reporting. The original CBS reporting is not a threat to national security, because Trump likes Bari Weiss.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s not that this story has not gotten attention, but this is the sort of story that Fox and NewsMax would have turned into a cultural touchstone under a Dem by running for weeks, darkly hinting at a conspiracy
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