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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is good that people are coming around to the idea that the Supreme Court needs to be taken down several pegs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...

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Congress Is Supposed to Be More Powerful Than the Supreme Court. Why Isn’t It?

Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Why are Bernie Sanders, AOC, & Elizabeth Warren the only members of Congress who I ever see calling out the Tech Bros? If other members of Congress are doing this, let me know. Shouldn’t they all be sounding the alarm??

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Collin 'Appears To Be A Typo' Woodard @collinwoodard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

sometimes it's still hard to believe the government decided the license that lets you drive this fiat should be the same one that lets you drive this truck

photo of a GMC HD truck dwarfing my fiat

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 09/10/2026

I think it’s bad that the two most prominent left-leaning politicians in the country don’t feel like they can criticize the cops in their own city when they help the secret police flee the scene of a shooting

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms @streetfilms.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

THIS happened in NYC yesterday. And hopefully it is the start of seeing gates protecting the existing school streets or timed closures by places where students are playing. @openplans.org @nyc.streetsblog.org @nyc-dot.bsky.social @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjv...

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NYC Gets Its First "Paris-Style" School Street Gate! (We got the Deets How it Happened)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

“This is one of the most immediate, concrete, tangible, real, and affordable things that we can do to start to get control of our high energy costs, but also save our planet."

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California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

It's the largest state to greenlight plug-in solar panels that help reduce home energy bills.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026

If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Information asymmetry means it is possible for businesses to generate profits by misleading and harming society. Worker-owned businesses foster decentralization. Do you support them?

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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: A recently unsealed court filing that heavily cites government-produced documents + DHS agent depositions alleges that yes, there *is* a DHS database that's filled with protesters, called ICM. It's built by Palantir. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can we just have health care?

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

raise their goddam taxes holy shit

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.

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Linda Falcone @lindafalcone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if i could buy a story, a day, a week, even a month, without a subscription that requires cancelling, i would buy so much more media.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many professional class whites seem to have decided that the moral of Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece is that she was wrong to care about the education of disadvantaged Black kids in the first place and nothing can be done.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. Watch us break down how a once-rare emergency process became the norm.

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The Supreme Court Changed. What Now?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Corrupt Susan Collins saved by a Kash Patel and Pam Bondi cover up. bsky.app/profile/prop...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/09/2026

hell yeah

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026

John Oliver is right: One huge company shouldn’t own your doctor, your insurer, and your pharmacy – AND get to squeeze every penny out of you at each step.

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 22/09/2026

The truck involved in last week's fatal crash with a teen on a Citi Bike was exempted from a city rule requiring a crucial safety feature. About half of all trade-waste vehicles are exempt from the life-saving tech, the Business Integrity Commission told Streetsblog. buff.ly/yyre2rL

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City Exempted Truck in Fatal Crash from Life-Saving Safety Component - Streetsblog New York City

And about half of trade waste trucks in the city have been exempted because "the design or operation of the vehicle" makes it too challenging to install the after-market safety feature. Huh?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lot of issues here but one part that sticks out in light of the almost-attacked-a-Chinese-ship story today: people with very important jobs where lives are at stake have bought the hype and outsourced their whole brains to AI. We're going to see more and more of this. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

In the past year, the Defense Department has rapidly made Maven a cornerstone of the US military apparatus. Several former senior US military officials now work for Palantir, including some with high-level security clearances in Centcom’s Tampa headquarters. Their role is to keep the software functioning inside secure military environments. Some Centcom personnel expected Maven to flag stale information or inconsistencies in the underlying intelligence assembled for potential targets, the officials said. It’s not clear why they had such expectations.

The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.

It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fact Donald Trump told his supporters last night to "Cheat like hell" in 2026 election BUT that isn't the headline nationwide shows you again how corporate media is complicit.

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The Ken Harbaugh Show @thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Let kids play with their friends" is it. Perfect answer Chris.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Schumer's daughter works for OpenAI. Gillibrand's son founded a new crypto exchange backed by billionaires. In case you were wondering why things are the way they are.

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Politico: OpenAI hires Senator Chuck Schumer's daughter to work for the artificial intelligence corporation.
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Politico: Crypto billionaire among dozens to back startup from Gillibrand’s son
Chris Larsen, John Griffin and Mark Ein are angel investors in a new financial exchange led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s 22-year-old son.

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2

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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them.

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire.

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16.

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner.

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation.

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.

The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute.

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention.

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed.

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days.

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.

None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

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--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner --

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For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

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Governments should fear their people @ohnoherehecomes.myatproto.social · 27/08/2026

When you can no longer effectively shame public officials, it really only leaves the one other option...that bluesky will ban me if I say

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It’s better to know What’s Coming, even when it’s straight out of a Stephen King horror film. Always read @elienyc.bsky.social 👇 www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Even if the court eventually rules on the merits that this EO is unconstitutional, Trump will simply issue another one, and then another one. If he's not allowed to prevent the post office from sending mail-in ballots to voters, his next move will be to order the USPS not to return the ballots from people who are not on his preapproved list of voters. Then he'll order elections officials to not count the ballots once they're received and threaten them with lawsuits if they do.
Every one of those executive orders will be challenged by states, but the Supreme Court has given Trump every reason to believe that one of these unconstitutional, antidemocratic orders will hold up in court and that he can keep muddying the procedures for running elections— potentially right up to Election Day.

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The only people being obtuse in this moment are those who insist that the Supreme Court is a reasonable actor, committed to maintaining American-style democracy against the threats posed by the Trump administration.
If you don't believe me, just do what Mr.
Rogers told all of us of a certain age to do:
"Look for the helpers." The Republicans on the Supreme Court are the helpers.
They're just helping evil.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/08/2026

For the next 70 days, our job is to unify against the fascists to win the midterms — and anyone who doesn’t understand that is helping the fascists.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i will shoot my phone with a gun if i have to download another app for a basic fucking task

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Some mix of a Simpsons ep or a post-war absurdist novel in which the fading insane King declares war on clouds. and yet hardly anyone notices today because this stuff happens two or three times a week.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Prescription drugs are about to get even more expensive. Trump is coming for Medicare Part D subsidies, which try to keep drug prices down (they're still too high.) We desperately need Medicare for All. No parts A, B, C, or D. No premiums, co-pays, deductibles. Just healthcare when you need it.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A new study found that Medicare for All would save 114,000 lives a year & reduce healthcare spending by over $1 TRILLION. Families would no longer have to choose between paying household bills or seeing a doctor. Medicare for All is the right answer to our broken healthcare system.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."

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Linda Falcone @lindafalcone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wonder who will win the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Why are markets today so disconnected from the real world? Part of the answer is the financial press. “Trump could end war early”? Are you serious? We’re in the 6th month of a war that was supposed to take days. And he can’t end it early. He got the US in position where Iran decides when it ends.

Marketwatch.com headline 8/10/26: Dow set for steady start as S&P, Nasdaq eye gains on cooling rate fears, report Trump could end war early

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Earth is a habitability bubble and I'm fine with that.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

if, instead of organizing around rallies or campaigns, if the democrats ever wholeheartedly re-embraced the labor movement specifically and formal organizing like this around housing and similar material aspects of american life, my god just imagine

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

South Korea built solar panels over highway medians and turned the space underneath into protected bike lanes. Clean energy + safe cycling, using infrastructure that already exists.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Put this directly into my veins

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