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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Oh jeez. NYT changed their original headline (left) to the less interesting one (right)

Trump Hid in a Catering Container to Sneak Out of Turkey Amid Threats
Officials are said to have used the container to transport President Trump to a secret military flight out of the country after the NATO summit last month.
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Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid
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President Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 04/08/2026

Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“There should be no doubt that this heartbreaking loss is the direct result of inhumane conditions perpetrated by GEO Group and the Trump admin. Delaney Hall must be shut down, and justice must be served on behalf of Edwin and every person whose life has been upended by the daily cruelty”

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This tweet will always be in my Twitter Hall of Fame.👇

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

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Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Not one word in this article comes close to indicating how vile it is that the FBI is trying to blame the victim here. Repulsively inadequate journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

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F.B.I. Searches Houston ICE Shooting Van for Drugs

Federal investigators believe illegal drugs were inside the vehicle, though the immigration agents involved in the encounter do not appear to have known that.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Update: We are nearly 2 hours into Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing and he has yet to mention the Dow. Right now, the Dow is over 50 thou.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

Coons points out that while Blanche claimed during this hearing that he's "not celebrating" Trump's pardons of violent January 6 insurrectionists, during a conservative event he sang a very different tune and praised Trump for the pardons

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/06/2026

We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Scott Wiener’s Viral Harassment is What Left Antisemitism Looks Like - Assigned Media

An opportunist at the Trans Pride March in Sanfrancisco harnassed suspicion and hatred of Jews for his own purposes.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

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I worked at Smithsonian, specifically raising money for 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month long Folklife Festival on the mall, "The Festival of Festivals". Was going to feature well known festivals, think Burning Man, Farm Aid, Grand Ole Oprey etc. as well as smaller local and regional festivals from across the U.S. and territories. Goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression in music, dance, arts and craft traditions, food, community etc. Can't name names but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts.... Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because was under banner of Smithsonian. It had to all be scrapped bc the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once in a generation cultural moment.

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Cato Institute @cato.org · 28/06/2026

America’s traditional immigration policy permitted freedom of movement. America’s Founders believed that the United States should be, as George Washington repeatedly put it, “open to receive not only the Opulent & respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions.”

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It was called Freedom 250 because that's how many people went.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Morherfucker you are the invader!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026

BLUMENTHAL: Who won the 2020 election? TRAYNOR: This issue has become a question of political controversy B: It's 'political controversy' only because Trump refuses to accept the results T: It is not appropriate to engage in discussion regarding that B: So you're going to use the same script

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

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Intrusive, scheming spyware grifter who studied social theory under verbose bore Jurgen Habermas tells everyone else to forget about that sort of thing and drill for oil in Texas. Leave the thinking to me and my weird pals, we'll run things from now on!
unusual whales @ @unusual_whales •20h
Palantir CEO Karp: "The average Ivy League grad voting for [the NYC mayor Mamdanil is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Who knew what? When did they know it? How close were they to Trump's inner circle? And can anyone within or around the orbit of this regime be trusted to put the interests of the American public above their own pocketbook? It is maddening that we even need to ask these questions.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The mirage of AI deregulation

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Cannot recommend taking the time to read this article more strongly. Truly compelling reporting that does the best work I have seen in a long time depicting the jobs that AI is creating: precarious data works. Huge congrats to @joshdzieza.bsky.social.

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Josh Dzieza @joshdzieza.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

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The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers

Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

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10F Consortium @10fconsortium.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Issue 1 of our Substack newsletter just went out. We start by introducing thesis, forecasts, and the AREAS framework. In coming weeks, we’ll explore the forecasts, the network, and our approach from different angles. Come through. open.substack.com/pub/10fteam/...

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From One Game to Many Games

Introducing 10F: Ten Forecasts for the Unravelling of Globalization

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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I have more news to share: Last year, I joined the @10fconsortium.bsky.social, a collective of foresight practitioners and domain experts from 15 countries. We've just released a set of open-access forecasts mapping 10 global transformations. Learn more and download here: www.10fconsortium.org

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10F Consortium | Open-Source Foresight on Global Transformation

Ten open-source forecasts on the transformation of globalization (2025-2035). Independent, practitioner-led strategic foresight. CC-BY-4.0 license. Use it, adapt it.

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

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He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter

A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Nothing to see here. Just the president of the United States declaring that an ethnic group consistently votes against him, that their votes are illegitimate, and that they should leave the country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNQo...

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

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Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’

The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

An editor who thinks novelty is having a town hall with Alan Dershowitz, or publishing the thousandth anti-woke story, doesn’t think having first hand testimony of migrants suffering abuse because of US decisions is newsworthy.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

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Lyn Jeffery @lynj.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Got this email notice from Academia.edu today informing me that my PhD dissertation has been turned by AI into a “shareable comic.” 🤣 Never been precious about the diss, still stand by the work. An ethical approach would have allowed people to opt in rather than opt-out + unilateral publication.

Screenshot of an email that says: “our AI turned your paper “selling selves: “into a shareable comic.”

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 31/10/2025

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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A retired policeman posted a Charlie Kirk meme. He spent a month in jail.

The 61-year-old Tennessee man plans to sue after authorities dropped charges over a political Facebook post. Free-speech advocates say it’s a symptom of a wider crackdown.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

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ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract. Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

like in the past two days he started illegally tearing down the white house to build a ballroom paid for from money extorted from american companies and demanded that the government secretly pay him a quarter of a billion dollars for investigating him for crimes he more or less admits to

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future.

There will be universal high income."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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