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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know what....let's talk about this "infamous" photo, before the spirit of typing leaves me. I think it's relevant considering the news from the Pentagon we just got This is the scene of what's considered the "last public lynching." And it's legacy is quite long. 🧵
book:

Our Town. A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wrote about Thurgood Marshall recognizing the bad-faith legalism of his conservative SCOTUS colleagues before just about anyone else. www.liberalcurrents.com/thurgood-mar...
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Thurgood Marshall Saw It Coming
The supercharged bad faith of “constitutional originalism” threatens everything we hold dear.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
"Just come here the legal way" was always light years easier said than done; now they aren't even in the same galaxy.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Since Reconstruction, Louisiana has elected four African Americans to Congress. And you’re looking at all of them. Four.” Even though nearly a third of Louisiana’s population is Black.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"The litmus test of whether the US is an entrenched mafia state has always been Kushner." Full article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The degree to which @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us this would happen for over ten years is truly remarkable
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*that we know about
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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lizzo83.bsky.social @lizzo83.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The threat is not that AI will wake up and decide to destroy us. The threat is that humans will deploy powerful, unconscious tools recklessly, without understanding their limitations. That is a human problem, not an AI problem—and it requires human solutions, not sci-fi panic."
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How a New Princeton Study Debunked AI Self-Improvement Alarmism – Emerald Book
◆ Emerald Pages ◆ artificial intelligence How a New Princeton Study Disproves AI Self-Improvement Alarmism Emerald Book Publication September 16, 2026 7 min read A landmark Princeton study proves curr...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/09/2026
Once the majority has decided a marginalized group is the demon in one part of a story, it’s easier to paint them as demons in another.  But it doesn't have to be this way. These books offer a humane approach to trans athletes:
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Let Them Play: How Welcoming Trans Athletes Can Improve Sports Culture for All
Three recent books press us to understand the humanity and lives of gender-expansive athletes.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Do you know Lucy Parsons? She was once declared the most dangerous woman in America. Born a slave, but soon became the most important woman of the labor movement. Her husband was executed after Haymarket and her erasure deliberate. She had a complicated relation to race despite being Black
The caption to a black and white photo of labor organizer Lucy Parsons that reads:

Lucy Parsons was a radical labor organizer who helped mobilize workers during the late 19th century struggle for the eight hour workday.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The 19‐old-wife is being forced to fight the entire apparatus of the United States Navy, while caring for a toddler and a baby, in the wake of her 19-year-old husband's mental health crisis. 19.
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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 27/08/2026
For the folks who say, "they signed up for this," I retort: They did not. Service is the only way up and out (swidt) for a lot of kids who don't come from deep pockets. For many, the rational choice is also a cruel one, a cursed lottery ticket.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lots of headlines on SCOTUS mail-in ballots ruling are wrong. A different injunction blocking the executive order still holds and the Post Office's proposed rule will probably be enjoined too. It ain't over yet. Steve Vladeck sets the matter straight: www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...
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246. Making Sense of the Mail-in Ballots Ruling
The Supreme Court’s grant of a stay in one of the mail-in ballot cases is deeply wrong, but it’s also not the main event over whether Trump’s patently unlawful executive order can take effect.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To paraphrase: "It's cool, the President said in the executive order telling the Post Office to do something illegal that they can't do anything illegal, so who knows, maybe it'll be legal, we can't say, it's just too early."
The true “source of any injury” to the States would be the
downstream action that the Secretary “might take in the
future” to implement §2(a). Trump v. New York, 592 U. S.,
at 133–134. Emphasis on might. Section 2(a) can be implemented only “[t]o the extent feasible and consistent with
applicable law.” 91 Fed. Reg. 17125. And as the Court explained in another case involving a Presidential directive
with a similar qualifier: “Any prediction how the Executive
Branch might eventually implement” §2(a) while balancing
feasibility and lawfulness “is ‘no more than conjecture’ at
this time.” Trump v. New York, 592 U. S., at 131. The Secretary’s “eventual action will reflect both legal and practical
constraints, making any prediction about future injury just
that—a prediction.” Id., at 133; see 91 Fed. Reg. 17125.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impeach this corrupt villain
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
you know who would be celebrating their 85th birthday today? Emmett Till
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I can't stress this enough. This was their POLICY and PLAN. I've been saying it for months. I know that you all know this. I hope that the people who are losing their benefits understand too. Brooke Rollins et al have been saying that this is their desire and intention for months.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Also while I'm on my fire season kick, put Watch Duty on your phone. It now has nationwide coverage for fires and flooding. Consider a paid membership so you can watch the aircraft fly around, which is fascinating.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Reminder
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.
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Arthur_Again @arthuragain.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Holy crap. The US military killed someone in a US city. Another line crossed.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The people wont let this stand for much longer
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...
The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas.

No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers.

At her side, a pink rolling bag.

Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot and yanked from a car he’d been driving. Now, he lay handcuffed in the street, where he would remain for five hours.

 “You took her dad, you took her dad!” a woman nearby yelled, according to Cecelia Humiston, 22, who witnessed the interaction in Biddeford on Monday morning.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here's why you may not know that: 64% of Memphis residents are Black. There are other reasons, but mostly that.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Not only does this horrible story illustrate the wanton cruelty of our immigration system as it was is now, it also illustrates how utterly heartless it's been for decades. This man tried to get his citizenship for as long as it takes to raise three sons. He did everything "the right way." And...
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🧵LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO Better organized thread of vigils/protests for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. •Always check date/time •Pls lmk about events I haven’t listed If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Laura Norton-Cruz, LMSW, CLC @lauritadianita.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fury & grief. I haven’t seen video of this killing, but I don’t need to see video to know that ICE shouldn’t be killing anyone. This is a man gone who should be here, a father who should be able to watch his children grow old. This is a got agency that has no bearings & should return to not existing
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
no abuser sustains a career of abuse alone. At every stage, they have people willing to give them second, third, 30th chance while the survivors keep being unable to pay their bills. those are also choices, and you don't get to be automatically loved for them. Who gets all the chances speaks volumes
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/07/2026
🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 9 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/FNfgR
Graphic from Stand Up for Science urging action on a federal funding proposal. Large text reads: "9 Days Left" and "Help Us Stop Vought From Destroying American Science." A portrait of Russell Vought appears beside the U.S. Capitol. A banner along the bottom reads: "Submit a comment on the OMB proposal | Link in bio to take action." The Stand Up for Science logo appears in the top left.
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lizzo83.bsky.social @lizzo83.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So sad for Senegal. What a game.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.
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