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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am a volunteer who has been exposing the duopoly's national rollout of +91 free zones since 2018. Please support my research, subscribe to my Substack, and, where possible, donate. Thank you💚 ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"By the way, Delcy Rodriguez is still doing this to dissidents, and we're still sending dissidents back to Venezuela as we prop up Rodriguez as a puppet."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I assume this is a bombshell because a real person who matters has said it, because it was absolutely crystal clear at the time that he didn’t give a fuck and the IDF were implementing the programme of destruction and mass slaughter they had been itching to put into practice for many years.
Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social
In bombshell interview, the man who served as Netanyahu's military secretary on October 7, 2023 says that the Israeli pm passed up clear-cut opportunities to bring more hostages home from Gaza alive because doing so would have risked his political career!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Charlotte Observer reported yesterday that Seck is set to be released after nearly two months in ICE detention. "Seck entered detention while dealing with a torn ACL and meniscus and missed a scheduled surgical procedure while in custody.”
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ICE is releasing HBCU basketball player Aminata Seck
HBCU basketball player Aminata Seck of Kentucky State University is set to be released from ICE custody after nearly two months of detention, according to her attorney Sadiqa Reynolds. Reynolds announ...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The gofundme for Nurse Chloe Freeman's legal defense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Nurse charged with helping man in hospital escape from ICE custody
FBI accuses Chloe Freeman of federal misdemeanor in case of undocumented Mexican migrant arrested in Michigan
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new Democratic Congress needs to investigate this hateful man.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Seriously. That’s no cartoon.
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jcricket.bsky.social @jcricket.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Speaker is flat out LYING. Again.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As a teen, S faced a felony charge over a vape pen. 5 years later, that charge—& the routine dehumanization of navigating the criminal legal system—would trap S in her anti-abortion state & force her to give birth. For some groups, abortion travel bans are already here—we just don’t call them that:
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She Wanted An Abortion. The State Wouldn’t Let Her Leave
Travel bans are already here—we just don’t talk about them
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/not-...
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fucking assholes
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do something historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it". [Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here]
Screenshot from IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis, a novel set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany)]

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the duties of despotism along with his shoes and his fine new coat. He no longer went out racketing. His cabinet begged him not to clown in barrooms and lodge entertain-ments; it was not dignified, and it was dangerous to be too near to strangers.

So he played poker with his bodyguard, late at night, and at such times drank too much, and he cursed them and glared with bulging eyes whenever he lost, which, for all the good-will of his guards about letting him win, had to be often, because he pinched their salaries badly and locked up the spoons. He had become as unbouncing and unbuzz-ing a Buzz as might be, and he did not know it.

All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do some-thing historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it.

https://archive.org/details/itcanthappenhere00lewi_0/page/412/mode/1up
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯 Every study initiated on the subject makes it clear that the most effective, cheapest (yes, CHEAPEST, most inexpensive, highest return on investment) forms of aid are direct cash payments with zero means testing, and on-request right-to-housing. These are just facts.
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well, they screwed their courage to the sticking place and condemned socialism! What more could we ask?
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Armed Federal Agents Are Now Blockading Tribal Police To Protect Private Contractors as They Bulldoze Through a Sacred Reservation Masked and heavily armed, they deliberately set up a vehicle blockade to stop tribal police from intervening or removing the workers. www.themarysue.com/armed-federa...
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Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
Armed federal agents are now blockading tribal police to protect private contractors as they bulldoze through a sacred reservation
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
the manliest men www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The manliest men
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You must decouple the beef from other menu items. Just because a hamburger costs 16 dollars doesn’t mean a veggie burger should cost 15 dollars.
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Can we skip considering any possibilities for this right away?
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I love this album so much. It’s got so many different sounds, such deep emotions and punchy rhythms. Love it.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
M. Gessen on the hell that Kansas is inflicting on trans people is really hard to read, but so necessary. It also shows why the hysteria over trans athletes is so dangerous. Because it creates buy-in from liberals and centrists to demonize trans people, www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You da man
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/08/2026
An old man repeatedly saying “young beautiful girls” is a sentence that should make everybody’s skin crawl.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Mandy Kilpatrick @mandypandaren.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Are we allowing this? Because there is no one with honor or integrity in Congress to stop it....? Is there a way for us to fight this?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026
I do not know how to articulate how angry I am about these boat strikes. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Covert CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the fishing boats before drones attacked, flight data shows.
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
You’re in a line of people being forced into a wood chipper. You’re watching the people ahead of you getting shredded into a substance that can be efficiently shipped and fed into furnaces that power data centers. You don’t see any way out, folks around you are cool about it and so, yeah, bad poll.
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So any competent educator will teach hateful, intolerant misinformation, backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Please let us know when it actually collapses. “All but effectively” doesn’t cut it.
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I started asking ICE about this third death at Delaney Hall last week after Rep. Rob Menendez described it on a call with reporters.... nine days later the agency is now confirming the death of Jose Chajon-Raxon, from Guatemala...
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ICE Belatedly Confirms Death of Third Delaney Hall Detainee
In a statement Thursday night, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan immigrant, had died after his “release” to a local hospital.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Lynching of Black people in the south has increased since racism took the escalator in 2016 to announce his bid for dictatorship
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Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I never thought the “We will target your group for removal, specifically” party would tagret my group for removal www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/i-ne...
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I never thought the "We will target your group for removal, specifically" party would tagret my group for removal - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I honestly don’t know what you’re supposed to do about voters like this: Wilkinson “Ken” Sejour, who owns Miami Chef Creole, says customers and others in the community are scared, and he might have to...
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump is to America what America is to the world. Yet trump and america are still beloved, heroic figures to a great percentage of the world’s people.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/08/2026
Chick-Fil-A Raptured theonion.com/chick-fil-a-raptured
Chick-Fil-A Raptured
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Let them eat reflecting pools www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/let-...
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Let them eat reflecting pools - Lawyers, Guns & Money
[via] Radley Balko sums up the new, even dumber and crueler Gilded Age: It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as t...
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Please have a look at this important deep-dive piece by Bloomberg Law Editor-at-Large Keith Alexander. What are the consequences of Trump flooding the streets of the District of Columbia w/assorted troops and officers? Everything Trump touches gets "botched." news.bgov.com/white-collar...
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A Year After DC Federal Surge: Cases Dropped, Lives Uprooted
In the weeks that followed President Trump’s order last August to send the National Guard into Washington, federal prosecutors filed more than two dozen cases charging people with assaults on federal ...
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 05/08/2026
You can't make someone learn something that their job depends on them not knowing. Establishment Dems are never going to suddenly realize that left-wing policies win elections, because they are capitalists who would rather lose than give up the class system they're addicted to
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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markchillfin.bsky.social @markchillfin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a great article, except now I want to jump off a fucking building.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The great Covid bait and switch www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
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The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
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