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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.
A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026
I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.
popsci.com
A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading
New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ABC forced to fold its tent and not run the Kimmel interview w/ Talarico based on patently unlawful megaton threats from the FCC to Kimmel and everyone. It's a story that may fade fast, but it's a total abomination and proof of authoritarian inroads that this could happen in USA. Outfuckingrageous.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026
Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
More recently in Craighead County — symbolically, at least, Ground Zero for the state’s attack on libraries, thanks to Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Jonesboro) — the library announced several changes to circulation as it relates to minors. In a Facebook post, the library listed a number of changes to library policies, including:

Minors are prohibited from using the self-checkout kiosks;
Children under 13 years old may only check out materials from the designated children’s collection, while minors age 13-17 can only check out from the children or teen sections;
Minors may not check out DVDs at all; and  
Minors are prohibited from entering or purchasing anything from the Friends of the Library Bookstore.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Israeli army demanded early Monday that residents of Deir Zahrani in southern Lebanon leave a specific zone ahead of strikes against Iran-backed Hezbollah. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
france24.com
Middle East Live: Israel army orders evacuation of zone in south Lebanon ahead of strikes
The Israeli army demanded early Monday that residents of Deir Zahrani in southern Lebanon leave a specific zone ahead of strikes against Iran-backed Hezbollah. Hezbollah's Al-Manar television channel…
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Stephen Zunes @szunes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One of many examples of the U.S.-backed destruction of Lebanon. In response to Israel's war on that country, the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on the Middle East & North Africa declared, "The United States will continue to support Israel's right to self-defense."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
hrw.org
Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Worth watching if you haven’t, Ratko Mladić may be dead but full justice requires that we continue to bear witness, that we remember. May the souls of his victims fly free. youtu.be/HJh8fuaqslo?...
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The Trial of Ratko Mladić (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Andrew Rumbach @andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There is a lot we don't know about the Nepal Tibet flood. Here are some things I suspect, as someone who studies risk just a couple hundred miles away: andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/seven-expe...
andrewrumbach.substack.com
Seven expectations about the Nepal & Tibet flood, from a long-time student of disaster risk in the region
Like many of you, I’ve been watching in horror as video clips of the disaster unfolding along the Nepal and Tibet border have gone viral.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 26/08/2026
Take all of the murder tweets that attribute boat strikes to Gen. Donovan (since February), and the death toll of those now exceeds 100. To be exact: 101 dead in attacks ordered by Gen. Donovan, and 227 dead since September 2, 2025.
U.S. Southern Command
@Southcom
"Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere continues executing precise, lethal operations against the cartels. We will hunt, disrupt, and defeat these narco-terrorist networks. SOUTHCOM is resolved to neutralizing cartel terror and violence throughout the region and into the U.S. homeland," - #SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan

On August 25, under Gen. Donovan’s direction, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. 
@DeptofWar
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“Cycling through parts of the river where, as a child, I used to swim filled me with an indescribable sadness," he said. "It was like looking at the scene of a terrible accident. Throughout that journey, the scale of the catastrophe was unfolding before my eyes.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
theguardian.com
Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 16/08/2026
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Danube River is so low that a whole fleet of sunken Nazi battleships are visible.
pbs.org
The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging
In the middle of the river separating Serbia and Romania near the Serbian port of Prahovo, a rusty hull is now visible along with a broken mast where the Nazi flag used to fly.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We're near the ten-year anniversary of this interview, which was viewed as wildly controversial at the time. It led to hit pieces on me from liberal outlets like The New Republic as well as death threats. Now it's seen as conventional wisdom -- but it always was!
Sarah Kendzior making obvious points about authoritarian kleptocracy in the US under Trump on MSNBC in Nov 2016
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/07/2026
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 24/07/2026
New, by me: The Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it. We've confirmed the phone was running GrapheneOS. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260724...
techcrunch.com
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whenever I see or read about bison this clip pops up in my head.....
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
nytimes.com
How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/07/2026
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Kyiv tonight. #UkrainianView
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/07/2026
On America's birthday, Trump decided to spend some of that time with Putin. "Putin and Trump held ‘businesslike’ 90-minute July 4 call, Moscow says" www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/e...
cnn.com
Putin and Trump held ‘businesslike’ 90-minute July 4 call, Moscow says | CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump in a July 4 call lasting nearly 90 minutes in which the US leader again offered to help end the Ukraine war, according to Russia’s foreign mini...
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Study says 30% of women in Ohio didn’t get needed reproductive care ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/01/s...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Study says 30% of women in Ohio didn't get needed reproductive care • Ohio Capital Journal
A new study shows a significant amount of Ohio women felt their reproductive health needs were “not being met” in previous years.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Man is still vile. With effort aimed at holding and using power for transitional justice, we may yet punish the transgressions that allow ICE's vileness and we may attempt recompense for those harmed in our name bsky.app/profile/gill...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/07/2026
Breaking news: Senior U.S. officials feared that Israel intended to assassinate Iran’s top negotiators as the Trump administration pursued a high-stakes deal to end the war there and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. warned Iran about Israel’s aims to assassinate leaders
In the spring, U.S. officials suspected Israel intended to kill Iran’s top negotiators and sent a warning to Tehran to take precautions.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Anyone good at lip reading?
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
More evidence for @adamserwer.bsky.social's thesis that the current Supreme Court hates the Reconstruction Amendments and seeks to recreate the antebellum Constitution.
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Timothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 25/06/2026
So not only can we not fedpost but apparently we can no longer algae post
Holy fucking shit. This post got me a visit from the FBI today. More details soon.


I am the leftist who put algae in the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool. This plan was months in the making. I introduced spores into the paint used by the contractors who repainted the pool. It was me the whole time.
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Daniel Newman // New Mill Industries @dnlnwmn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
One of my son's classmates is obsessed with the NYC subway system (and trains in general) and has a kickstarter up for a board game he designed about it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho...
kickstarter.com
Visit NYC: The Subway Racing Board Game
A competitive board game based on the New York City Subway System. Pending official licensing by the MTA.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/04/2026
had to double check that this wasn't a parody account
BREAKING: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Dramatic video from Getty Images from behind the dais. They actually got Vance out before Trump. www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/vi…
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/04/2026
Patients are piling up in emergency rooms across the country while waiting for a real hospital bed—and “once they enter ED boarding, patients exist in a gray zone,” Elisabeth Rosenthal reports.
bit.ly
A ‘Barbaric’ Problem in American Hospitals Is Only Getting Bigger
Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.
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James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
For many years, Stephanie Nolen was one of the best reporters covering the HIV/AIDS in Africa health crisis. Now, finally, the #NYTimes has unleashed her again -- and here's her valuable first-hand report from #Zambia. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
nytimes.com
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
theatlantic.com
Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
i had to check and yeah www.yahoo.com/news/article...
yahoo.com
Top Trump counterterrorism official placed on leave after ex claims she solicited funds from ‘sugar daddies’
The 29-year-old official claimed she did nothing wrong, saying, ‘I didn't know it was bad to go on vacation with your boyfriend’
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started openly monetizing his hotels at Mar-a-Lago & around the corner from the White House. We have yawned, as a country, at unprecedented corruption right in front of us.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“Public records appear to show the most prominent member of Vance’s closest circle with connections to Orban’s Hungary is Chris Buskirk,” who co-founded the Rockbridge Network with Vance. Rockbridge is “the secretive fundraising group backed by billionaire Peter Thiel…” 4/5/26 … 1/
detroitnews.com
In Hungarian election, Trump and Putin are backing Viktor Orban
He is trailing in the polls ahead of a national election on April 12.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
donmoynihan.substack.com
The Death of USAID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war
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Erica Wilkinson @everywhereerica.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I had 5 wrinkly apples, a pack of stale hot dog buns, and leftover apple caramel from when I boiled down a batch of cider -- So I've made some custard and turned it into a bread pudding and I can feel it in my bones that this is going to be the best dessert and I'll never be able to replicate it.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 09/04/2026
theglobeandmail.com
Mummified reptile offers glimpse at how breathing began
Fossil reveals early breathing mechanism also passed on to mammals and birds
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Squat Erry Day @implicitpower.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I may never know who the original artist is. but one day a cheeky historian or museum curator will be absolutely correct to use this image to capture our particular political moment.
Line art of the maps of the EU (top left, blue), China (top right, red), and the USA (bottom, gray). Superimposed on each of them is a drawn face. The USA is stabbing itself with two daggers, bleeding all over the place, its face screaming in berserker rage. Europe and China look on, concerned.
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