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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/05/2025

Ahh, but with most people it's less "I'm not smart so I will use 'AI'," and more "Look how smart I am, using 'AI' to do the things I don't want to do." It's tool use. The problem is, when you don't understand the tool, you don't use it properly and you use it (poorly) for things it's not suited.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Is anybody missing two jets? I found two jets. I will leave them on the lawn until noon, otherwise they're going OBO on Facebook marketplace.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/05/2025

warner is probably terrified of facing youngkin in a general (which, he shouldn't be) but i think he ought to be more worried about a primary challenge fueled by an absolutely furious virginia democratic electorate

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I’m 46 but I had my shingrix shot because I’m worried about what RFK jr is going to do with vaccines. Shingles is a preventable illness like measles. We are so lucky to have these vaccines! I for one will not forgo them because the guy who runs government health services has a 🐛 in his 🧠

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/05/2025

Would love to see an elected leader say that folks in the government who are breaking the law will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

oh new york... frozen hash brown patty presented ironically as delicacy in prettt upscale breakfast place...

rounded rectangle of hash brown adjacent taters served in fancy minimalist bowl like food trophy

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Interesting that if you shop at Whole Foods, a lot of money is spent making it feel like a place that respects workers and embraces progressive values, but it is not. Costco just feels like a warehouse but they treat their workers pretty well and has rejected anti-DEI BS

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Elisabeth Olson @lissaolson99.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Weather Channel using a teacup as a size indicator for hail.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: It’s true, America’s #1 WITAOD reporter is boycotting the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Counter-programming for the WITAOD Correspondents’ Association just got underway STAY TUNED for updates !!

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The reality 👇

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Just heard someone say “he sounds like he spends a lot of time on Facebook” and hooo boy everyone’s immediate understanding of what that means should be a brand crisis for Meta

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If we’re serious about more efficient government and better everyday life in America - which we all should be - that means actually improving government, not cutting health care for poor people and slashing support for veterans.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched from the Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1990. Here's to a remarkable 35 years of imaging the Cosmos. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ Leave your favorite Hubble images in the replies!

False color image of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) in Cassiopeia.A ghostly blue bubble sits among golden orange clouds of gas, punctuated by sharp violet pinpricks – young stars.

Spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies. White, blue, and red swirls of stars from two disrupted spiral galaxies captured mid-collision, with messy lanes of dark gas and dust stretching between their bright yellow cores.

The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A jewel box of tightly clustered white, blue, and red stars.

False color image of the Lagoon Nebula captured by Hubble for its 28th anniversary in 2018. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange clouds surround a region of active star formation, with our view obscured by dark molecular clouds.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Stay loud stay visible stay brave

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Not even us.

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The Book Burrow @thebookburrowtexas.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'm just trying to read my book. #economy #rollercoaster

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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Johnny Mac @johnnymac.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I recognize all these words but have no idea what they mean in this order

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Kind of keen to get behind whichever 2028 Dem talks about MAGA-friendly gulag countries in Axis of Evil terms.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

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Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

When you've lost The House on Haunted Hill ...

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Euronews @euronews.com · 21/04/2025

Unlike his predecessors, Pope Francis has chosen not to be buried in the Vatican Grottoes but in the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he frequently prayed.

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New papal burial rites established at Pope Francis' request

Unlike his predecessors, Pope Francis has chosen not to be buried in the Vatican Grottoes but in the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he frequently prayed.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Today is the 93rd birthday of the astonishing trailblazer and multifarious talent Elaine May. Just adding my voice to the chorus of appreciation!

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It would take about 30 Congressional Republicans to fully bolt from Trump to upend Washington and check the president's power. We are at about 2-6 on any given day.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

“These are kids who will never pay taxes,” Kennedy declared. “They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize we are doing this to our children.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Trump White House media relations bureau keeps throwing a tantrum, there are other ways to break news and report that inform the public without having them whine at you in person

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Yall keep going to these if you want 💅🏽

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Ben Ross @benross.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

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Andrea Kuszewski @andreakuszewski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Impeach that sadistic motherfucker

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

"Yesterday, we received notice from the federal government that our grant had been terminated and part of the reasoning was that we no longer align with the White House policies.” African-American history museum in Boston worried about future as its federal grant is cut

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African-American history museum in Boston worried about future as its federal grant is cut

A museum dedicated to the African-American history of Boston has had its federal grant cut, putting future programs in jeopardy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

There we go. Support this man.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I seem to remember when people who said electing Trump will bring about camps were labeled hysterics by the august editorial boards of America.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I don't really have anything especially profound to say, but yeah man this is it. They won't obey even the most milquetoast SCOTUS orders and are talking about sending US citizens to foreign gulags. It's happened here.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As there continues to be a lot of dialogue around the crisis of manhood, a reminder to men that so many of the issues they are currently facing were created by other men who are intensely loyal to a destructive patriarchy. So you’re just supposed to work until you’re literally dead?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

This sneering resistance to the judiciary’s intervention was both entirely predictable and profoundly ominous. From the start, the U.S. government’s behavior in this case has been a conscience-shocking breach of both laws and norms that once stood as a firewall to safeguard all of our civil liberties. And it is now spiraling out of control. In a matter of days, Justice Department lawyers and administration officials have burned through basic legal duties in defense of a hideously unlawful scheme that seeks to permanently render innocent people to a black site. They have torched their credibility by violating the most fundamental obligations of candor to a court—not hesitantly, but proudly so, with undisguised disdain toward judges attempting to salvage whatever remains of the rule of law.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/04/2025

For my Patreon blog this week, I wrote about how American men are being manipulated by insecure, hypocritical Trumposphere conservatives into ignoring their own material well-being. www.patreon.com/posts/trumpe...

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The Trumped Up Masculinity Panic | Katelyn Burns

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 13/04/2025

Tulip House owner has turned it into a "guess how many bulbs" game.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND (Greenbelt Division) KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al., Defendants No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX Declaration Of Assistant Director Evan C. Katz DECLARATION OF EVAN C. KATZ I, Evan C. Katz, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declare under penalty of perjury as follows: 1. I am Assistant Director for the Removal Division, within the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). 2. In this capacity, I am responsible for leading the division, which is composed of ICE Air Operations, International Operations, and Removal Management. I coordinate with the 25 ERO Field Offices to support case management and facilitate the removal of aliens from the United States. I have held this position since December 2023. Before this assignment, I served as the Acting Assistant Director for the Removal Division from January 2023 to November 2023 and Deputy Assistant Director for the Removal Division from January 2015 to December 2022. I have been in service with ICE since 2003 and prior to that, the Legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service since November 1997.

3. I provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge, reasonable inquiry, and information obtained from various records, systems, databases, other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, and information portals maintained and relied upon by DHS in the regular course of business. 4. I am aware that the instant lawsuit has been filed regarding the removal of Kilmer Armando Abrego-Garcia (Abrego-Garcia) to El Salvador. 5. I am aware that after this Court’s preliminary injunction issued, that the Government sought a stay pending appeal from the Fourth Circuit on the same day and ultimately the Supreme Court. On March 7, Chief Justice Roberts issued an administrative stay of that preliminary injunction order. On March 10, the Supreme Court held that “the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective” and that aspects of this Court’s injunction needed to be clarified before they could become effective. 6. During proceedings in 2019, an immigration judge upheld DHS’s decision not to grant bond, finding that DHS’s determination that he was a member of MS-13 was “trustworthy” and “supported by other evidence,” and noted that Abrego-Garcia “failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.” The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the finding when Abrego-Garcia appealed. 7. On March 15, 2025, Abrego-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, was removed to El Salvador, pursuant to Title 8 of the United States Code. Although Abrego-Garcia has an order of removal issued by an immigration judge, I understand that he should not have been removed to El Salvador because the immigration judge had also granted Abrego-Garcia withholding of removal to El Salvador. However, I also understand that Abrego Garcia is no longer

eligible for withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13 which is now a designated foreign terrorist organization. 8. I have reviewed the declaration of Mr. Michael Kozak, which was filed in this case yesterday, April 12, 2025. It is my understanding that Defendants have no updates for the Court beyond what was provided yesterday. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 13th day of April 2025. ____________________________ Evan C. Katz Assistant Director Enforcement and Removal Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement U.S. Department of Homeland Securit

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I think my favorite part is how a cargo ship takes at least 10 days to cross the Atlantic and at least 15 days to cross the Pacific, so if your cargo ship left somewhere on April 1 headed for the U.S. then you've gone through multiple wildly different tariff regimes while still at sea.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/04/2025

Coachella Unveils Premium VIP Areas Where Fans Will Be Able To See, Hear Bands theonion.com/coachel...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

to agree with the Bruenig piece, you have to accept the premise that continued human presence on earth requires us to be concerned with white birthrates, because otherwise there's no problem to be solved

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 10/04/2025

I do not think the desperation and anger of working parents, at this specific point in history, can be underestimated

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