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MarleeAnnK

@marleeannk.bsky.social
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Interested in too many things. Seen and experienced too much and fortunately too little. Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most. Close second: Naivety.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Read our story from July 9 about how an MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
wired.com
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
In April, we published our first story about the surveillance machine at Madison Square Garden—an operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. Read that here:
wired.com
The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"For the unaccompanied children at the San Benito facility, there is the added stress and confusion of being pregnant and alone. The facility has housed pregnant children as young as 13; about half of the pregnancies are the result of rape." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Where are all the kids?’: questions arise over treatment of pregnant minors in Texas immigration facility
The Trump administration may be deporting the US citizen infants born to unaccompanied girls formerly held at the San Benito facility
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/05/2026
His message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working class men—more political power to transfer to you. trib.al/OQDUwsh
trib.al
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Reinhard Steurer @steurer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Die Plattform X vergiftet die Gesellschaft nach innen und nach außen. Auch in diesem speziellen Fall ... mit Lügen und mit Abgasen. Niemand sollte mehr dort schreiben. Die unberechtigte Hoffnung, außerhalb der Blase etwas zu erreichen, steht nicht dafür. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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xAI stellt trotz laufender Klage immer mehr Gasturbinen auf, die ihre Umwelt vergiften
Das Unternehmen fuhr schon bei seiner ersten Anlage den Weg, so lange zu lügen, bis es überführt wird
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Felix Huesmann @felixhuesmann.de · 26/04/2026
Mitarbeiter des rechtsextremen Compact-Magazins bauen einen neuen „linken“ Onlinekanal auf - und BSW-Politiker liefern Videos dafür. Meine Recherche zeigt: das Querfront-Projekt „Rot&Real“ hat nicht nur eine enge Verbindung nach rechtsaußen - sondern auch nach Russland. (RND+)
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BSW-Politiker liefern Inhalte für Kanal mit Verbindungen ins rechtsextreme Milieu – und nach Russland
Ein neuer Onlinekanal gibt sich betont links und marxistisch, Politiker des BSW steuern bereitwillig Inhalte bei. Doch RND-Recherchen zeigen: Die Betreiber des Kanals haben enge Verbindungen zu Rechts...
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John Carpenter's Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
And so it begins. They are going to try to privatize TSA in smaller airports and move onto bigger ones until they are all privatized. #USDemocracy Trump 2027 budget would cut TSA funding share.google/M2iSIqtJy93u...
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Trump budget would cut TSA funding, require privatization at small airports
President Trump wants to cut funding to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and require privatization of security operations at small airports. The White House’s 2027 budget proposal, …
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/04/2026
Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz: • paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee” • diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees • failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families He also received a Trump pardon.
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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing.
At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 05/04/2026
Campaign to curb cars in Berlin sparks uproar ahead of election ft.trib.al/T5lhDnG
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Campaign to curb cars in Berlin sparks uproar ahead of election
Conservatives and far right are opposing a citizens’ initiative to restrict traffic in the German capital
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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 04/04/2026
@resistancerangers.altgov.info
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/04/2026
Two hundred fifty years later, it is time that we invalidate pardons done for corrupt and malign purposes—and make clear that a president cannot pardon himself. trib.al/p9MNgx4
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Trump’s Corrupt Pardons May Well Be the Most Corrupt Thing About Him
When the Framers invented the pardon power, they never imagined someone like Trump as president. We need to rein that power in immediately.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/04/2026
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
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U.S. Forest Service unveils extensive closures of research facilities
Cost-cutting move is expected to cause resignations and turmoil
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/04/2026
A decade before @ashleyrparker.bsky.social’s father died, she lost him to dementia. She writes about the heartbreak of mourning someone before they’re gone:
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The Endless Goodbye
More than a decade before my dad died, I lost him to dementia.
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Anne Fromm @afromm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Meine Kollegin Sophie Fichtner und ich haben den Fall für die @taz.de recherchiert. Hier könnt ihr ihn lesen: taz.de/Sexualisiert... 5/6
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Sexualisierte Gewalt: „Man darf nicht zulassen, dass sie zu sich kommt“
Acht Männer organisieren in Telegram-Chats Vergewaltigungen. Danach prahlen sie mit ihren Taten. Vier von ihnen wird der Prozess gemacht.
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Anne Fromm @afromm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Acht Männer beraten in einem Telegramchat, wie sie Frauen betäuben und vergewaltigen. Einer überwältigt fremde Frauen bei Wohnungsbesichtigungen, einer über Monate seine Nachbarin, ein anderer sein Onlinedate, der vierte gibt Tipps zu Betäubungsmitteln. 1/6
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 04/04/2026
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‘Shroom boom’: The Cork-based entrepreneur growing the future of packaging from mushrooms
Irish businesses are turning mycelium – fungus – into materials with the potential to rid us of plastics, and using it to recycle waste
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
theguardian.com
Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’
Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 04/04/2026
They’re making this woman pay $500 a month to talk to her husband.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/04/2026
The price of crude cargoes for immediate delivery has soared to its highest level since 2008, as traders react to a possible escalation of the Iran war and concerns about shortages of oil. ft.trib.al/SHko5xf
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Stable genius.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 22/03/2026
The medical appointment that confirmed my mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s was brief
irishtimes.com
The medical appointment that confirmed my mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s was brief
There’s no intensive treatment regime to follow, no chance of a cure
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I covered Robert Mueller for much of the last 20 years, and ironically, came to know him—a famously reticent and spotlight-averse figure—intimately as few journalists ever get to know a subject. I tried to explain why his model of public service mattered: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rememberin...
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Remembering Robert Mueller
The reporting subject I knew best
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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Heute war der Startschuss eines tollen Projekts. Es heißt „Abpflastern“ und kam 2025 aus den Niederlanden nach Deutschland. Es ist ein Wettbewerb zwischen Städten und Gemeinden. Wer vom 21. März bis 31. Oktober am meisten Flächen entsiegelt & begrünt, gewinnt. Mitmachen können Privatpersonen...(1/2)
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20/03/2026
The Pentagon is cooking up some creative strategies to open the Strait of Hormuz
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.
@DarriogMelanie on X: A top Trump official has been walking around with an electronic device gifted to him by senior foreign intelligence officials.
Mar 14, 2026

Where are all of the “but, her emails,” Republicans on this one?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/03/2026
The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village ft.trib.al/2Y7IKUQ
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The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village
Hungary’s longtime leader is trailing in the polls ahead of April’s election, as the opposition alleges widespread corruption
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/03/2026
2. In doing so, the panel extended the Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti—which held that transgender youth care bans were constitutional—to transgender adults, the first federal appeals court in the country to do so. The ruling pdf is directly in my story.
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 01/03/2026
Unaccompanied children as young as 13 who are pregnant, often from rape, are being moved to Texas so the Trump administration can avoid getting them access to abortion, critics say. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say
Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation
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MarleeAnnK @marleeannk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Jonathan Cohn: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it." That's right. Consideration would lead directly to approval. And RFKJr isn't having that.
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This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like
A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/02/2026
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The full story with a gift link (it's such a mess):
wsj.com
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There must be a dozen fireable offenses listed in this piece: *Noem firing civil servants without cause *Her boyfriend using govt resources to boost her profile, punishing officials who would not give him a gun *Massive waste on ads, planes, delayed contracts, pushing favored firms
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There has never been a better argument for destroying capitalism than "if we can't make money off vaccines, then you don't get vaccines." Hear me out: Publicly-funded vaccine research and everyone gets the vaccines for free.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
image from today's hearing
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Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
For people who don't follow the FDA closely: this is insane. Like my jaw hit the floor when I saw this. The FDA is flat out refusing to even consider Moderna's application for a new flu vaccine? The federal health apparatus is fully compromised by anti-vax conspiracy. THIS IS NUTS! BAD
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Moderna hit with FDA refusal-to-file letter for mRNA flu shot, issues sharp rebuke of agency's rationale
During the first year of the Trump administration, signs of an anti-mRNA slant within the FDA and HHS became more and more evident. | The FDA specifically took issue with the trial's control arm, whic...
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
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kd @katalogued.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Per Tunheim's order, ICE purportedly rescinded a 15-year-old policy in December so that they could claim authority to start detaining refugees in January who do not have LPR status. This is yet another unilateral policy change being done by secret ICE memos. (See: www.lawdork.com/p/the-system...)
That understanding persisted for decades. As recently as 2010, Immigration and
Custom Enforcement (ICE)'s own guidance expressly acknowledged that § 1159 is "not a
proper basis for detaining" refugees who fail to apply for adjustment after one year. U.S.
Immigr. & Customs Enf't, Memorandum on Detention of Refugees Admitted Under INA §
207 Who Have Failed to Adjust to Lawful Permanent Resident Status ("2010 ICE
Guidance") at 2 (May 10, 2010).? Although that guidance was purportedly rescinded in
December 2025, 1° the agency's consistent historical practice is strong evidence that the plain text of § 1159(a)(1) does not authorize DHS to arrest and detain unadjusted
refugees, absent any ground of removability. Moreover, current federal regulations do
9 (Drake Decl. 1 18 & Ex. 16.)
10 (Decl. of Deputy Field Office Director Tauria Rich ("Rich Decl.") 1 6, Jan. 31, 2026, Docket No. 56-2.) The Court has seen no written document that rescinds the 2010 ICE Guidance. The Court therefore orders Defendants to submit any such documentation at the preliminary injunction stage.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A confidential document reveals both the Trump administration’s plans to interfere with the states’ authority to run elections and how dangerously insecure the sensitive data will be in the department’s hands.
brennancenter.org
“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data
At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This is scathing. Kash Patel and anyone else involved in this must be impeached. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.pAnP.FE6p37Nwd1TA&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
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