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i don't fit into a world of greed and scams and coercion... really don't know how to exist in this gambling/scam economy in the us, it hurts my soul.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 07/10/2026
Real talk by Dutch politician, Anna Strolenberg on Jane Doe & the predatory male tech industry. "I stand with Jane Doe. Abusing women is not a business model. Whether it’s spyware to track women’s phones, or nudify apps used to undress women, Big Tech has made millions off the abuse of women."
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/10/2026
This is a photo of some rocks and sand. It was taken earlier today, with a camera 247,000,000 km away. It was taken on Mars. And now you're looking at it on your screen.
Dusty, red rocks, and red soil. Darker soil in the middle of the image marks where one of the rocks has been displaced.
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Michael @pedroromero1754.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apples, man. Pretty interesting.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 24/09/2026
*NY ACCUSES POLYMARKET OF RUNNING ILLEGAL GAMBLING OPERATION *NY GOV. HOCHUL, AG JAMES ANNOUNCE POLYMARKET SUIT IN STATEMENT
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judge Kelly orders hard passes returned to White House reporters for @CNN @MSNOWNews & @politico immediately. They were pulled in violation of Fifth Am Due Process. No stay pending appeal. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At 3:30pm ET, US District Judge Tim Kelly will hold a hearing on whether to grant a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of Trump's 9/18 directive to bar @cnn.com, @msnownews.bsky.social, & @politico.com from the White House grounds. I’ll try to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org /1
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Footage from another angle shows the massive scale of the explosion at a Syrian Ministry of Defense weapons and ammunition depot in the Aleppo countryside.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE agent shot a man in the torso during a traffic stop in North Austin today. He's in serious but stable condition. Austin PD wasn't involved; the mayor wants local police on the investigation for third-party eyes. ICE has been out of control since they started this B.S.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026
Magical swallow sunset tonight. 🪶
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.
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After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A sign of concern about the batshit crazy duo of Trump and Bessent. The Dutch central bank has shifted more than 78 tonnes of gold from New York to London in a politically sensitive move, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. www.ft.com/content/1749...
ft.com
Dutch central bank moves gold bars out of New York over ‘geopolitical unrest’
DNB prefers London over the US city, pointing to better ‘tradeability’ of bullion
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Reminder that every last bit of this world is worth saving.
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Cool, we didn’t need that specially designated paratrooper respond-to-anywhere-in-the-world-with-no-notice capability anyways
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 30/08/2026
🧵 I just read another piece about the U.S. starting to slide from "reverse brain drain" into "brain drain" — which, from a national security and prosperity perspective, is a terrible development. The specific case here is Canada's success in luring U.S. academics.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s a lesson that if in 2029 or 2033 or ever we get a chance to fix what’s broken, we have to fix it and ignore institutionalist complaining. Cause they will complain.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/08/2026
Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers' bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, has died while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. officials said. He was 84. to.pbs.org/45O4zVF
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Ratko Mladic, ex-Bosnian Serb warlord who oversaw atrocities, dies in prison at 84
The bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces rained shells and snipers’ bullets on Sarajevo and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II has died while serving a life sentence for ...
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Denys from Ukraine @glushko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
❤️‍🩹 Life keeps going on in Kyiv, even amid constant bombardments and air raid alerts.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026
it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this is great i wish they’d put me in a swaddle and knock me out for scans
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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Superb outcrop maintenance! (Next step: relocate that white pole...) ⚒️
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Minnesota sues Texas in federal court for the extradition of ICE agent Christian Castro, who is accused of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon for firing a gun into an occupied Minneapolis home, injuring one person. Here's the complaint --> www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Commu...
7. Governor Abbott has disregarded the requirements of the Constitution, federal law, and his own state’s procedural rules in refusing to promptly make Castro available for extradition to Minnesota in compliance with Plaintiff’s properly issued governor’s requisition warrant.  Governor Abbott’s continued withholding of the rendition warrant threatens to undermine Plaintiff’s constitutional and statutory rights to have Castro returned to Plaintiff for prosecution.   8. This threat is heightened by the State of Texas’s 90-day limitation on the detention of fugitives awaiting extradition.  Under the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, if Governor Abbott continues to unlawfully withhold the rendition warrant, Castro may be eligible for release from custody as soon as August 26, 2026.  If Defendants are permitted to release Castro from custody before turning him over to agents of Minnesota for extradition, there is a substantial risk that Castro will flee and avoid prosecution in Minnesota.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 13/08/2026
A little bit of Perseids next to a little bit of the milky way.
A meteor goes across the sky to the right of the to the right of the pain and the left of the and the left of the pain is a little bit of the Milky Way
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall Prisoner Has Died — and ICE Tried to Cover It Up. This is the second Delaney Hall prisoner death over the last month and the third total—that we know of. www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-a...
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BREAKING: Another Delaney Hall Prisoner Has Died — and ICE Tried to Cover It Up
Guatemalan immigrant Jose Chajon-Raxon was released soon after being detained by ICE—while suffering seizures—and the agency covered it up for weeks
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
That's 125 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"it's possible to get ai to prove the goldbach conjecture but not write a readable essay" is the funniest, and likeliest so far, scenario
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In the moment, extending “temporary” protections is the compassionate choice. Over and over for decades with no permanent fix, it starts to seem like a missing-stair problem. And now DHS is just throwing people into the gap in the stairs. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.
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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/08/2026
The 30 July 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a remarkable shot of the Sun photographed through a wildfire smoke-filled sky that turned the star a deep red. So I tweaked it to look like we're orbiting an M-class red dwarf star with a close-in system of rocky planets, like TRAPPIST-1.
A blood-red star seen through thick clouds. Added to the original image is a transiting planet at upper left of the Sun's disk, and the illuminated crescent of a closer planet that occludes the lower right of the Sun.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 31/07/2026
The greatest birds to watch in history. 30 million years strong. 🪶
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
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A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.
News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.
The sword situation
The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement. I called my brother to check if there were any developments with respect to his sword and he said he could sort of make it out way up there if he squinted. I don’t know why everyone’s losing it over these swords he said. Then I called my congresswoman to ask yet again if there were any plans to tackle the sword situation as it were and the girl who answered said it was the official position of the office that the swords do not exist except in some rare foreign cases. I could tell she was reading from a script. Can you let her know that they most certainly do I said and she said that she would pass the message along and hung up. Outside some landscapers were at work trimming the neighbor’s hedges. Each of them with a gleaming blade perched inches from the back of their necks. Why didn’t they just grab it at this stage I thought. Why didn’t they just reach right up and grab it.
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Chris Gug @gugunderwater.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.
This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 2026-07-28 and available online at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-15190, and on
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
de: 9111-97
8 CFR Part 208
[CIS No. 2851-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0199]
RIN 1615-AD18
Affirmative Asylum Referrals Without Interview
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS.
ACTION: Interim final rule with request for comments.
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending its regulations
to permit U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to refer certain affirmative
asylum applications to the Department of Justice (DOJ Executive Office for Immigration
Review (EOIR) without interview. USCIS still offers an interview prior to a grant or
denial of asylum. DHS is also removing the requirement that a letter communicating the
basis for referral of asylum include an assessment of the alien's credibility.
DATES: Effective date: This interim final rule (IFR) is effective [INSERT DATE OF
PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 23/07/2026
OPINION: "[A]nytime I read a story involving a young Black man, a child or a family facing an unimaginable loss, my mind immediately goes to my sons. I think about their faces. I think about the parents receiving the phone call that changes everything," Erica Powe writes.
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Editor’s Note | A Mother’s Plea for Careful Journalism
Erica Powe reflects on motherhood and the importance of careful reporting while reflecting on the deaths of Trey Reed, Kohen Wiley and Nolan Wells.
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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
Two days before Bably Kohen Wiley was killed in a Walmart parking lot during Senatobia PD’s response to an alleged shoplifting call, Senatobia officer Dexter Smith reported that Sgt. Hunter Foster had called him a "Black motherf—er.” | Grace Jidoun atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/23/w... #BlackskyNews
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'The Room Went Silent': White Mississippi Cop Involved in Deadly Shooting of Black 1-Year-Old Accused of Making Racist Remark Just Two Days Before
The white Mississippi cop accused of fatally shooting a Black baby and injuring a Black woman over alleged stolen diapers faces fresh allegations of
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’m at the Wisconsin State Capitol, where Rep Sheila Stubbs is holding a press conference with the family of Corey Ruiz and their attorney, Ben Crump.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who murdered former MN House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, & her husband, Mark Hortman, & attempted to murder MN Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, & his daughter, Hope, was sentenced to two Life sentences plus 40 years with no parole. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Vance Boelter gets 2 life terms, no parole for Minnesota lawmaker shootings
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years in the killings of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the attacks on John Hoffman, his wife Yvette and their daughter Hop...
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19/07/2026
Anyway, here's something cute I just edited. 🪶 🐣
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manitou202.bsky.social @manitou202.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Aaron Hammer @cityinahole.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
As a teen I worked at a gas station selling people scratch tickets. I would not have thought that people could destroy their lives over 1$ scratch-offs, but I watched it happen. I think about how much worse off my customers would've been if they could have gambled on their phones.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Valerie has just dropped her peach in the Seine.
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Two days before a Colombian immigrant was killed during a vehicle stop by ICE officers in her district, Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree joined @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social to discuss ICE's tactics in the state, saying "their policies are getting worse" every day under DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Eamonn Griffin @eamonngriffin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Disapproves like Jagger.
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