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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
Federal ICE agents in suburban Chicago over the weekend mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who suffered injuries to his head, neck and teeth in the confrontation, according to local police. The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself.
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ICE Mistakenly Detains U.S. Citizen in Chicago Area, Leaving Him Injured
The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A non-violent, peaceful & lawful event in support of engagement in the midterm election. Please share with your friends and prepare to vote early!
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Benton County ballot drop boxes are the safest way to return your ballot!
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Important dates for an important midterm election!
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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GenXer-71 @genxer-71.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Has Ashley St. Clair been subpoenaed & brought forward to testify before Congress or ANY government committee? Nope. I swear to the gods, they're all in on it. #EpsteinClass #PedoProtectors
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where’s this clip? Why is this one not going viral? Yeah
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Life at the Republican convention: Someone waves a Palestinian flag and immediately kicked out. Someone loudly calls for the assassination of multiple Democratic politicians and the crowd roars its approval as the speaker smiles in approval.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10/09/2026
Imran Ahmed founded the Center for Countering Digital Hate to hold Big Tech accountable by studying & exposing online hate and uncovering AI chat bots that threaten kids. Now the Trump admin is threatening to detain & deport him for his work. This cannot stand.
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US judge dismisses suit by British anti-disinformation activist against deporting him
A federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit by British anti-disinformation campaigner Imran Ahmed that challenged the Trump administration's ability to ​detain and deport him.
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A non-violent, peaceful & lawful event in support of engagement in the midterm election. Please share with your friends and prepare to vote early!
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oregon midterm election deadlines - prepare and share!
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Log Off. Live More. ✊ @logofflivemore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sen. Wyden describes these contractors as “essentially health care middlemen that are in the business of red tape,” noting they gain when “americans don't get health care.” #Medicaid kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
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Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems - KFF Health News
As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligi...
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
'heavenly bodies collide'
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We will always love you, Dolly Parton.
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metal dot txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At "Rally for Democracy" protest in Mount Kisco New York, Aug 22 2026:
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You may not follow politics, but politics follows you! Trump/GOP’s Big Ugly Bill ripped away Americans’ healthcare subsidies, skyrocketing Americans’ healthcare costs to give billionaires tax cuts! With Trump/GOP everything is expensive, billionaires get richer, & you get less! #RestoreACATaxCredits
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/08/2026
Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...
Microsoft Is Retiring Excel’s COPILOT() Function After Just One Year
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Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.

Microsoft says the formula is redundant
Microsoft is removing COPILOT() because Excel already provides other ways to access the same AI capabilities.

Users can continue working with Copilot through the Copilot side pane and the Dynamic Action Button (DAB). Microsoft is not removing the underlying AI features from Excel, only the dedicated spreadsheet function.

The retirement comes as Microsoft continues expanding Copilot elsewhere in Excel. The company is adding multi-agent web search to Copilot in Excel, giving the assistant more advanced capabilities for finding information online.

Microsoft is also unifying Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a si…Microsoft is retiring the COPILOT() function in Excel, ending roughly a year of testing. According to Message Center MC1454373, the function will become unavailable after September 14, 2026.

COPILOT() allowed users to describe tasks in natural language and receive AI-generated results directly inside spreadsheet cells. Microsoft offered the experimental function to Frontier and Insider customers.

COPILOT() handled text and web-based tasks
The function worked particularly well for tasks involving text summarization, classification, content generation, and web-based information lookup.

Users could enter natural-language instructions directly as part of a spreadsheet formula instead of opening a separate Copilot interface.

However, Microsoft did not recommend COPILOT() for numerical calculations. The company also advised against using it to retrieve information already stored inside a workbook or for content subject to legal and compliance requirements.

The feature required an active internet connection and a Microsoft 365 Premium subscription.
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today!
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Shame
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026
Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001. nyti.ms/4zpkRBB
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
💥 'This is South Lebanon today. Israeli bombs have killed 11 Lebanese civilians at dawn alone today. Pieces of human bodies were found in a swimming pool. The remains of children. This is what American taxpayer money bankrolls.' 8/15 @sarahabdallah.bsky.social
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LINDZEE @lindzee2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Ice says that these electric gloves are meant to "maintain compliance." Slave owners used to say the same thing about whips. If using shock collars on dogs is Animal Cruelty and Abuse, how is it fine for ICE to use Shock Gloves on people?
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/08/2026
After winning Teacher of the Year award at a conference in TX, UMD Professor Kibret was detained by ICE at the airport. 3 weeks later he’s still in custody. He’s not the “worst of the worst” & detaining him isn’t making communities safer. He should be released, now. www.wbaltv.com/article/mary...
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Maryland professor Berhanu Kibret remains in ICE custody
ICE confirmed Kibret is being held at Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, more than 250 miles from the airport.
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Introduce yourself as what almost killed you... Hello! I'm an Alabama tornado that touched down only on one corner room of a motel, leaving a massive hole in the ceiling, a 2x4 stabbed through the bed, three children under an overturned couch, and a paperback novel undisturbed on the nightstand.
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Pat Coleman @patcoleman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Corey Jay @coreyj.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The fuck you say??!! A dead man is voting for republicans. There better be a fucking reckoning.
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Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Joe Biden had a bad debate in 2024. Hundreds of news stories about it. Trump has had hundreds of bank accounts closed due to evidence of money laundering. Nary a peep. Why?
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) US painter who worked in the American Impressionist style, and whose mentor was Claude Monet #womensart
Painting featuring a  rural scene with trees in sunlight and small hut to the left
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/07/2026
This clip tells you everything about the Trump regime's economic "strategy." They’re already setting up the excuse.
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Ryano @justbeingryano.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @repbradsherman.bsky.social
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/07/2026
These clowns thought a US and Israeli war against Iran would be a cakewalk. Trump and Netanyahu believed regime change was no biggy. Lindsey Graham said Iran would start collapsing within weeks. We are in the worst possible hands.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today is the LAST DAY to submit your public comment and tell the Trump Administration HANDS OFF CHACO CANYON! We won’t let them destroy our sacred sites and we are fighting with everything we’ve got. To submit a public comment, visit eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The President of the US is a rapist.
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
@govandybeshear.bsky.social SCHEDULE THE ELECTION.
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LA Star @lastar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@govandybeshear.bsky.social SCHEDULE THE SPECIAL ELECTION!
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This is ultimately the same story as the Kansas driver's license thing. The word of the United States government is simply no good if you are a member of a minority Republicans do not like. Lucy will pull the football. You can't live a stable life like this.
big wall of text describing how the queers got betrayed by the government yet again
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
They mixed the salt, with water, to make homemade electrolyte, because they worked all day in the Texas sun to build people houses. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
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Houston ICE Shooting: Lawyer Says Bags Held Salt, Not Drugs
Federal investigators said a “crystal-like” substance in the bags looked like methamphetamine. A lawyer for the victim’s brother said it was salt.
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indivisiblebenton.bsky.social @indivisiblebenton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please help if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...
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Donate to Help Bring José Home, organized by Christine Dashiell
Help Bring José Home | Ayudemos a Traer a José de Regreso a Casa On July 1, my good friend… Christine Dashiell needs your support for Help Bring José Home
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Socialism will wreck the economy comes from the same people that wreck the economy.
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
SCOOP: A 28-year-old man running from “an encounter” with federal immigration agents at a gas station in St. Augustine, Fla., was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday morning, according to a state highway patrol spokesman.
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Man in Florida Fatally Hit by Truck While Fleeing ICE, Official Says (Gift Article)
Details about what exactly happened at a gas station in St. Augustine before the man was hit were unclear Tuesday.
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