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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14h
If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 22h
He said it. They cheered. Don’t ever let them rewrite that. #SheShed
Graphic with white text on a dark background reading: “Remember it was Trump that called for the destruction of 2 American cities. Not Mamdani. Not El-Sayed. Not any Muslim. Trump. A white, billionaire, rapist, pedophile.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14h
All of them have connections with Epstein.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23h
Another thing to tear down in 2029: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is to avoid California state oversight. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨Really important voter registration deadlines coming up: 10/4 - Alaska, Rhode Island & South Carolina 10/5 - Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas Make sure you're registered & spread the word
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NEW updates in the case of the young LSU student who was “forcibly raped” by a football player: the police and local DA are *now* investigating what happened. I have the latest details, including LSU’s history of multiple failures in handling sexual assaults on its campus: youtu.be/cy6ExQ5XLjI?...
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LSU Football Player UNDER INVESTIGATION After DISTURBING ASSAULT ALLEGATIONS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Unsung Women Behind America’s Most Celebrated Civil Rights Protest The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Book Review: ‘How Bright the Path Grows,’ by Marcia Chatelain (Gift Article)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Marcia Chatelain revisits the 1963 March on Washington, placing overlooked Black women at the center of the story.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/10/2026
How much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene, Oregon. buff.ly/AlxYU8S
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Khashoggi's assassination was in hindsight one of the highly salient norm-shattering moments of impunity that helped recalibrate contemporary expectations for outrageous crimes: if you're rich & powerful enough, in the words of the President of the United States, "they just let you do it"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Since 2000, the average college course description has more political content & more liberal slant. Changes are modest relative to persistent cross-field differences; student demand for liberal content rises over the 2010s & peaks in 2020 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Political Content of College Courses
We measure two dimensions of politics in college courses-the amount of political content and its partisan orientation-using course descriptions from nearly 1,00
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read the full article here: mississippitoday.org/2026/10/01/f... 2/
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
A screenshot of the Mississippi today headline: Farm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi

Obed Azahel Hernandez Perez from Mexico died while harvesting sweet potatoes, according to the Chickasaw County coroner
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters sued to block a GOP-backed plan cutting 92 Election Day polling sites, alleging it disproportionately harms Black and Hispanic communities.
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We learned that the rules for starting a private school vary wildly across states. Some require background checks and specific qualifications. Others invite anyone with a dream and a pulse. See where your state draws the line. Take our quiz and share your results ⤵️
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Democrats Propose Bill to Cut OMB Funding if Trump Violates Anti-Propaganda Laws www.washingtonsun.com/congress/dem...
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Democrats Propose Bill to Cut OMB Funding if Trump Violates Anti-Propaganda Laws
Sen. Patty Murray’s measure comes after the administration ran several ads paid for with taxpayer dollars.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two people detained outside a Chicago-area immigration detention center last year are suing right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson for defamation, saying he falsely portrayed them as violent extremists who assaulted federal officers.
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Pam Bondi’s Secret DOJ Email Address Revealed The former AG used an email alias during her tenure. It’s a long-standing DOJ practice that can interfere with the public’s ability to access records through the #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Pam Bondi’s Secret DOJ Email Address Revealed
The former attorney general used an email alias during her tenure. It’s a long-standing DOJ practice that can interfere with the public’s ability to access records through the FOIA.
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ltd0713.bsky.social @ltd0713.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This must be the Peterbilt Motors factory in Denton, TX. I wonder if he asked the crowd how much they love the price of fuel and groceries since affordability is a hoax. Or what the workers think about tariffs on raw materials. Enjoy what you voted for MAGAts! Oh, and fuck you.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton is a corrupt con man who has used his office to enrich himself and live a lavish lifestyle with his various mistresses at taxpayer expense.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enjoy
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/09/2026
Trump's vanity projects would waste $1.8 billion of taxpayer dollars, per new report from Dems on Senate Joint Economic Committee. www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cach...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
if Trump truly isn't planning to illegally stay in office past 2029, what explains the US government paying for these Trump campaign ads to run on TV? they're just wasting taxpayer dollars to soothe his ego?
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE is set to open a new facility for unaccompanied kids in Alexandria, Louisiana. Resident Frances Boudreaux worries about the lasting effects detention could have on children. “I don’t want to be responsible for that kind of thing in our country,” she said. www.weeklycitizen.com/story/news/2...
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Meeting focuses on children at planned Alexandria migrant facility
Louisiana activists fear trauma could have lifelong impact on children to be housed at planned migrant facility at England Airpark.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks to SCOTUS GOP-appointed majority (same ones who attended Trump's state dinner last night), Trump admin will use faulty & inaccurate data to wrongly label eligible voters non-citizens & pressure states to remove them from rolls. Sets a chilling precedent www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to use flawed database to vet voter citizenship
While the impact on the midterms might be minimal, Justice Jackson warns some eligible voters could be disenfranchised.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 25/09/2026
Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...
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Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space (Gift Article)
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LIVE NOW youtube.com/live/d_Hkm3g...
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🚨BREAKING: HUNDREDS Block Traffic for Netanyahu UN Speech
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE is set to open a new prison camp for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana, in an airport that’s the largest deportation hub in the US. Will be run by the “nonprofit arm” of for-profit prison company LaSalle Corrections, which is definitely not doing tax evasion. www.thequeenzone.com/a-private-pr...
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A private prison company will run new ICE children's facility--and IRS pros have questions
A tax-exempt nonprofit tied to a private prison company will operate a new ICE facility in Louisiana, prompting questions from a former IRS expert.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Note from print pool earlier: "Staff from Fox, CBS & NBC are here but not shooting, as journalists wait to see whether the judge will issue a ruling after hearing arguments today." "There are signs in front of other tripods/cameras that say: NewsNation, Newsmax, RSBN, One America News & Lindell."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MacFarlane: The president doesn't have surrogates in congress defending this media ban. If they are, they're awfully quiet about it. And that tells the tale…
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Inspector General Report: ‘Alligator Alcatraz” Was Nothing More Than An ICE Concentration Camp www.techdirt.com/2026/09/23/i...
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Inspector General Report: ‘Alligator Alcatraz” Was Nothing More Than An ICE Concentration Camp
The true nature of hastily erected ICE detention facilities -- especially the so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" erected in Trump buddy Ron DeSantis's home state -- was called out by Mike Masnick shortly after its debut last June: There’s no way to look at what the US government is doing here and not think of it more...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
9/ Then there's Greenpeace. Energy Transfer sued over Dakota Access pipeline protests. A North Dakota judge entered a $345 million judgment, reduced from a roughly $667 million jury award. Greenpeace says it cannot pay and is contesting it. apnews.com/article/30bf...
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Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case
A North Dakota judge will order several Greenpeace entities to pay an expected $345 million to a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline nearly a decade ago...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Does... does he not know what happened to a former president there?? You know, something very bad?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
I thought it was the democrats that were going to ban hamburgers
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ltd0713.bsky.social @ltd0713.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The definition of FAFO. I hope every night she goes to sleep knowing what she voted or and what she believed it. And that to her last day she knows she voted for that happened to her daughter. Thankful my mother doesn’t hate people as much as Renee’s mother. That she loves me and others that much.
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