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Maggie Tronix

@maggietronix.bsky.social
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anthropologist, lawyer, dissident

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you love stationary and based on sales, I think a lot of people do. Here's a gentle nudge to move past "collecting" and to actually USE the stationary. Write letters to friends and family. Send thank you notes. Write actual cards and MAIL THEM.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every single one of these people view their government appointments as an opportunity to promote themselves and make money grifting while we pay them to do it.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
I am glad to welcome folks who have never been NFL fans to the "we hate Robert Kraft" club.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 25/08/2026
this is genuinely LeBron in his prime shit
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
SUNDAY: ICE nabs Padres minor league catching coach Oswaldo Pirela at the El Paso airport. A native of Venezuela, he has an asylum claim pending from 2014 & a work authorization valid until 2029. MLB, ALL WEEK: 🦗🦗🦗 PADRES CATCHER FREDDIE FERMIN, also from Venezuela, Friday night in San Diego:
San Diego Padres catcher Freddie Fermin, wearing catcher’s gear emblazoned with the Venezuelan flag during an MLB game against Minnesota in San Diego Friday night.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.”
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Seattle street art 🎨
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Matt Jones @yosemitesamurai.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Getting booed by the NYPD? Are they trying to make me like him more?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
FYI, here's a statement from Sandy Hook family lawyer Chris Mattei: "The Connecticut families’ landmark $1.4 billion verdict is completely unaffected by this decision. The CT families are actively enforcing their judgments and the inevitable liquidation of Infowars and Jones’s assets continues."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Lᴇɢꜱ Bᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Why is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Stop stop I already like him enough
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/07/2026
A new poll shows half of America wants Netanyahu arrested on U.S. soil.
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Half of Americans Support Arresting Benjamin Netanyahu: Poll
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
putting on my $3,000 tuxedo to go get called a piece of shit on worldwide tv by a 100 year old rapist
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.
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We can confirm the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van tested negative for narcotics/ illicit drugs.
We are not commenting further on the test results, as the investigation is pending.

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We have notified Salgado Araujo's family because we felt they had the right to know.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Mock Op-Ed Text:

Here's Why It Would Never a Mistake To Do Anything That Inconveniences Rich Assholes

by Some Rich Asshole
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
17 Mexican citizens have been killed during ICE operations. The Mexican government has filed criminal complaints w/several state prosecutors, served evidence preservation letters on detention centers, & called for a formal review by the UN Human Rights Council. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Mexico seeks accountability in Chicago-area ICE death and 16 others. Can it force the U.S. to act?
Mexico has filed criminal complaints with state and county prosecutors seeking investigations into the deaths of 17 Mexican nationals, including Silverio Villegas González, who was shot and killed by ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In Texas, a Border Patrol agent was just indicted by a local grand jury for aggravated assault for running down a migrant with his car on January 31, 2025. Video from a homeowner showed the agent driving straight into a man who was calmly walking on the side of the road. myrgv.com/local-news/2...
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Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 23/07/2026
Thinking about a paper idea I tossed around with my office mate in grad school about fatphobia as a fundamental cause of disease. If it constrains access to resources (jobs, partnerships, medical procedures or research) it may fit the bill.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I think it’s reasonable to have some complicated feelings about this one
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
”abolish ICE“ means (1) abolishing a particular agency and (2) salting the earth so that nothing that does what it does can ever emerge again—no matter what it‘s called or who is in charge of it.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...
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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government
Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13/07/2026
ICE and CBP have lied about EVERY shooting they've perpetrated. 100% of them.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.
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charlie @charliestdennis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Flag at half staff on Edgecumbe today. I’m using it to remember the 26 year old that was murdered by our federal government this morning in Maine. May he rest in peace. His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero. He was 26 years old. His 3 year old child was in the backseat of the car.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hey @heinrich.senate.gov, when you voted to advance the nomination of Markwayne Mullin out of committee and again voted to confirm him, was it with the understanding that he would command ICE to stop executing fathers in front of their children in our streets? www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/i...
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ICE agent kills man in Biddeford, spurring protests
Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, was not the target of the warrant agents were trying to execute, federal officials said.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
sometimes you get two bags of chips out of the vending machine I guess
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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