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Mark Pöpsel

@mark3000.bsky.social
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Associate professor of journalism and mass communication.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 11/09/2026
Asylum-seeker families tell of living in tiny rooms, with one bed between five, and being forced to endure violence, vermin and racist abuse
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‘I saw boy jump out of 6th floor’: life for migrants crammed in hotels
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Powerful op-ed by Senator @kim.senate.gov: "Delaney Hall is working exactly how it is intended to — as a purgatory to indefinitely hold detainees in poor and often dangerous conditions, with no progress in court, until their spirits break and they agree to self-deport."
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Opinion | The abhorrent conditions inside Delaney Hall are only part of the story
We are witnessing blatant disregard for human welfare, seemingly all to enrich Donald Trump’s corporate allies and sustain an inhumane agenda.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4 days ago The Pentagon fired the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes. Yesterday they broke the story of Elsie Dominguez, a civilian engineer who was raped repeatedly by the Captain of a Navy ship she was on. They keep trying to silence the press & quash the truth. Elsie’s story must be told:
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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and TexasAn ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Yup. The Obama administration had a whole pandemic plan in place, even ran table-top simulations with Trump’s incoming team. Trump scrapped it all because it happened under a Black president—then Covid hit. They are doing the same thing with Biden-Harris recovery and pandemic preparedness policies.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Arguably, earlier forms of red-baiting have left a lasting imprint on the field of communication.
A snippet of text from the article that underscores the lasting discursive effects that various kinds of redbaiting had on the field of communication.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
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MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE
Debora Kapisha, a medical-surgical nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland, was detained on July 30 at Logan Airport, according to the nurses union.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 03/08/2026
I should be clear that the architecture of Bluesky makes it the social media place I most like to be. I'm not on social media to be an influencer or instigator; I want to hang out with folks and have an enjoyable time. This place delivers on that. I hope it continues to do so for a long time.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Kamala Harris: We have a president taking America into a war the people did not ask for, spending billions of dollars without paying attention to the people right here in America who are losing their health coverage because of policies they are pushing to pay for a tax cut for the rich…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project?" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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AILA @aila.org · 24/07/2026
"While it may seem like ICE has been quieter, last month, they hit the highest numbers so far, in this administration, in terms of the number of arrests they're making nationwide...it's happening everywhere across the country." bit.ly/4pxoW29
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Six months since federal surge, immigration enforcement has become less visible but more active
Nick Miroff covers immigration and the Department of Homeland Security for The Atlantic. He's been tracking the shift nationwide and shared more of his reporting with MPR News host Nina Moini.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This photo is worth a thousand words. He can't help himself. robertreich.substack.com/p/he-cant-re...
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He Can't Resist
This photo is worth a thousand words
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We're going to see a lot of reporting about the people ICE has hired over the next few years, but it's hard to imagine how it could get much worse than this.
Brouillette, 37, told his ex-wife Ashley Brouillette late last year that he had been hired by ICE. She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode and she didn’t believe him. She didn’t realize he’d been telling the truth until this week, when videos began circulating online of the moments surrounding the shooting.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What I'm watching for: Don't be party to his claims of voter fraud but do report the hell out of them. Treat it as a big story, but not the one he wanted. The main character is the American voter, not a renegade president. For the free press we're entering a danger zone. Use it or lose it.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
During the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly this morning, an emergency resolution came forward as leaders at the event said some of the wildfire evacuees have no where to go.
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First Nation leaders react to lack of wildfire support from federal government | APTN News
During the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly this morning, an emergency resolution came forward as leaders at the event said some of the wildfire evacuees have no where to…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Democratic voters prefer politicians who are ready, willing and able to fight. Where incumbents fail that test, voters will look to replace them with politicians who will actually fight. That's it. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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Lander Johnson @landerjohnson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is the President of the United States!
This is the President of the United States!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/06/2026
BREAKING: We’re suing multiple Florida police departments on behalf of our client, Robert Dillon, who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit in a city he’s never been to because he was misidentified by facial recognition technology.
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El Cortador @newmexislosh.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Everyone remembers this, bro. You have to make your lies believable.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Jasmine Crockett response to Trump calling her low IQ: “Every time you say my name, you’re reminding the world that you’re terrified of smart, bold Black women telling the truth”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, speaking from a lectern. PHOTO: Josh Morgan,USA TODAY
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6
Elias Irizarry was filmed moving through restricted grounds and climbing through a broken window, according to a Washington Post analysis.
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Mark Pöpsel @mark3000.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s de-developing nation a status? Like “Second World but on the way down?” I’m asking for myself.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“Families are also now being split up in ways that are more dispersed, more hidden and harder to track.”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026
NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
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Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources fam...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
Looks like clean power isn’t a woke scam after all.
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Solar electricity is poised to overtake coal in—of all places—Texas
Looks like clean power isn't a woke scam after all.
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Death Cab for Cutie @deathcabforcutie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It’s not just that we will miss one of the most consistently funny, astutely perceptive and topically necessary shows on television, it’s that we will miss getting to spend a little time each night with one of the most genuine, authentic hosts ever to do it.
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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Every American should be disgusted by this.
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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I like that my feed right now is 100% lawyers going “legal expert here, judges only talk like this when they’re feeling a white-hot rage powerful enough to swallow a medium-size metropolitan area.”
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Donald Trump has so far pardoned at least SEVENTY fraudsters who have collectively stolen MILLIONS from Americans. Here's just one of them: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...
Exhibit A is Philip Esformes. The South Florida owner of nursing and assisted-living facilities was arrested in 2016 in what the F.B.I. called “the largest-ever criminal health care fraud case brought against individuals.” The fraudulent billing scheme stole $1.3 billion from Medicare and Medicaid — the same type of public entitlement programs the president says he is protecting with his crackdown on fraud in Minnesota and elsewhere.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 20/05/2026
Incredible performance by David Byrne on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert! Dance, Stephen, Dance!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/05/2026
Knicks forever
Mayor Mamdani with Jumaane Williams at the Knicks game.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every American should be disgusted by this.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Fuck this. #fuck
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.
In unusual deal, a $1.8 billlion fund that could help Trump allies is created. 
The agreement to end the Trump family’s lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority …
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Mark Pöpsel @mark3000.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Philadelphia is 38% Black, 33% White, 16% Hispanic. CBS Sunday Morning’s Philadelphia show-95% White. 🙄
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