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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"The Constitution Has Failed—And Repair Is No Longer Optional The American Constitution still exists on paper, but as a governing system it has collapsed under conditions it was never designed to manage. " theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-consti...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/03/2026
At a time of intense insecurity and inequality, the Trump administration seems determined to continue with a war that is rapidly exacerbating America’s own internal crises. trib.al/3IndjgS
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Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War
The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 20/01/2026
Using public voter files, Peter Lutz takes a first-of-its-kind look at partisan registration among pro athletes by league.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I’m listening to this while reviewing recent photographs from Gaza that a source provided me for a forthcoming piece and certain resonances between both circumstances have me about at my emotional limit
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
President Donald Trump’s choice to seize Venezuela’s leader outside normal legal channels undermines rule-of-law norms—signaling that force beats process, inviting copycat aggression, and raising the odds of cascading, uncontrollable crises. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/january-3-...
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
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‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Gov Walz vows justice
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Minnesota Senator Omar Fateh said he received reports that law enforcement denied a doctor the ability to provide lifesaving CPR to the woman.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE Agents Murder Woman in Minnesota
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Indivisible East Bay @indivisibleeb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Perfect messaging from The Overpass Visibility Brigade:
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 07/01/2026
ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/07/i...
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ICE officer fatally shoots driver through car window in Minneapolis • Minnesota Reformer
The driver then slowly backs up and appears to be leaving, when another officer fires three shots.
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A must-read message from Colin and Sophie Hortman, Mark and Melissa's children:
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/01/2026
Trump: “Something will have to be done about Mexico,” says Donald Trump, after the capture of Nicolás Maduro and attacks on Venezuela In an interview with Fox News, Trump assured that the cartels govern Mexico. “I have asked her on numerous occasions: 'Do you want us to eliminate the cartels?'”
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
OMG - "The Donroe Doctrine" - he has completely f-ing lost it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
10 years ago:
screenshot says: The New Work Times
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MAUREEN DOWD
Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
By Maureen Dowd
April 30, 2016
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/01/2026
Trump: "The oil business in Venezuela has been a bust…We're going to have our very large U.S. oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil infrastructure, and start making money."
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Grotesque
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/12/2025
FEMA downsizing plan is a disaster, survivors say [via @insideclimatenews.org]
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FEMA downsizing plan is a disaster, survivors say
It would cut staff by half, tighten eligibility, and pass costs and responsibilities to states.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10/12/2025
“The United States, the NSS implies, should intervene in European politics to weaken transnational institutions and legitimize the far right.” www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
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Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 10/12/2025
After the US deported migrants to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, some said that upon being brought into the facility, officials told them, “You have arrived in hell.”
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Deep Dive: The US Sent Migrants to 'Hell' in El Salvador
A new report details the harrowing and dangerous conditions migrants endure after the Trump administration deported them.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Most increases in grocery prices have at least some root in extreme weather wiping out a harvest, changing weather patterns damaging crop yields, or pathogens that are easier to spread in hotter weather devastating plants or livestock. There's a cost to inaction! prospect.org/2025/12/04/c...
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The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect
Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 02/12/2025
'The rats are fleeing the ship' as Trump approval plummets
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'The rats are fleeing the ship' as Trump approval plummets
As President Donald Trump's approval ratings plummet, "one of the greatest and most destructive cons in American history" is about to fall, writes USA Today's Rex Huppke.This fall, Huppke says, is "going to be spectacular" as Trump remains "horrendously unpopular and [a] swiftly deteriorating lame d...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2025
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present.

There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).
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Johana Bhuiyan @jmbooyah.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
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Jesse Coburn @jessecoburn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 20/11/2025
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/11/2025
NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Broadview.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 14/11/2025
COMMENTARY: Trump says his administration's cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and to care for veterans, is part of a push to root out fraud. There's no evidence it's as rampant as the president and his allies claim. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Is Turning the Screws on Vets So the Rich Can Get Richer
Donald Trump and his administration are making cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and benefits for veterans under false claims of fraud.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10/11/2025
Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting. Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
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Border Patrol Agents Pose At The Bean For Apparent Photo Op
The photo op came after agents tear-gassed a Little Village street and were spotted in the area numerous times. At the Bean, one agent shouted, "Everyone say, 'Little Village!'"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"The planes also don't have engines, which would need to be purchased separately."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/11/2025
The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with physical traits. trib.al/b0AtL8r
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Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/11/2025
California's Prop 50 has passed... so what's next? Beyond the significance of offsetting Texas’ Trump-inspired mid-decade gerrymander, Democrats hope the momentum from Prop 50 inspires other Democratic states to take similar action. Read Ari Berman's story here: bit.ly/3WIvoWz
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...
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FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
The FBI has subpoenaed the domain registrar of archive.today, demanding information about the owner.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/11/2025
Self-described Democratic voters outnumbered self-described Republicans, but only by 5 points in Virginia and 7 points in New Jersey. In both states, Trump’s negative effect on the Republican candidates went far beyond that. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/hey-republ...
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Hey, Republicans: Blame Trump
Exit polls show Tuesday’s election was a referendum on the president and his policies.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Here's @jonseidel.bsky.social's report of the same hearing. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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'It's a disgrace': Chicagoans describe jarring encounters with feds as judge prepares to rule on 'blitz'
U.S. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino testified on video that the use of force by federal agents in Chicago has been “more than exemplary," but also said he would have used more tear gas in Litt...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is a great summary of yesterday's hearing in the journalist/clergy 1A/4A lawsuit against CBP/ICE.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Why does this column exist?
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