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@marontheweb.bsky.social
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Woke up screaming. All views are my own, at least at the time of posting. Elder millennial who would be loving my 40s of it weren't for all the fucking fascism. She/her

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 8h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington: We have failed to live up to the command in Deuteronomy, “you shall not violate the rights of the alien or the orphan,” and to the words on the Statue of Liberty. And so “we are losing our soul as a nation.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-los...
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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ceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026
impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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L'il @marontheweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cardinal McElroy is ten toes down Homily for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees Delivered by Robert Cardinal McElroy - Archdiocese of Washington share.google/GXb1IjDi7rxU...
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Homily for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Read the homily delivered by Robert Cardinal McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, for the Mass for World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Video from Home of the Brave & VoteVets. Veterans who understand the meaning of Arlington don't want Trump's vanity arch. Citizens who understand what our veterans were fighting for--freedom & democracy--don't want an imperial arch. Stop Trump's Arch. youtu.be/tkCk8MpoYyo?...
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STOP Trump’s 250-foot-tall Arch
YouTube video by Home of the Brave
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Trump administration and Musk being in effect pro-AI child porn seems like a good thing for Democrats to point out.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is a stain on this nation. Especially on the Trump administration of course—but also on every member of Congress who’s failing to step forward to end this. I hope they can sleep at night. Actually, I hope they can’t. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“‘Sending people who won protection in immigration court to a conflict zone is a callous and deliberate strategy by this administration to force people to abandon their claims and rights,’ said Sarah Mehta of the American Civil Liberties Union.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/u...
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Relative of Afghans Who Helped U.S. Military Is Deported to Africa
The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/08/2026
TL;DR: Missouri slashed state funding for the Imagination Library by $4 million, Indiana eliminated its $4 million matching funding, and Maine ended the program due to a lack of funding (Janet Mills, are you kidding me?) OTOH It costs Trump $13.1 million to fix the National Mall reflecting pool.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/08/2026
Here’s to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally
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Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.
Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
my wife gave me conditions for consent and I said nah
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Government Accountability Project @govacctproj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🗞️ Now on @washingtonpost.com: Our whistleblower, former DOJ attorney, reveals that Title VI university investigations were “predetermined without regard to the evidence” in a political effort to pull funding and grab headlines. Read the full story: whistleblower.org/in-the-news/...
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Politics drove antisemitism probes against Ivy League schools, DOJ whistleblower says
A former Justice Department attorney casts doubt on claims of systemic antisemitism at Brown, Harvard and Columbia.
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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 19/08/2026
ICE surge operations threaten public safety, intimidate families, and hurt our economy. That’s why I’m asking parking garage and lot owners to stand with us and reject any ICE proposal targeting our communities. Boston is strongest when everyone feels safe.
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Mayor Wu urges Boston parking operators to turn away ICE leasing requests
The mayor cited public safety risks and economic harm in a letter sent Tuesday to local lot and garage owners. ICE fired back in an email to MassLive.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
FLIP IN FLORIDA: The Democratic-backed slate has flipped the school board of Sarasota County. This is a county of 400K that went for Trump by 18%. It's also where Bridget Ziegler has been on the school board. Dem-backed candidates just flipped 2 seats, adding to the 2 they already had (out of 5).
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Feels like a good time to remind folks that the text of the Constitution explicitly provides for legislative privilege. It says nothing about judicial or executive privilege. So, naturally, the courts have found that judicial privilege is the strongest, then executive, then legislative.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage" is this administration's general vibe.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/08/2026
The ICE raids and cruelty we are seeing inflicted on children are unacceptable.

The federal government has stripped legal representation from hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children. Many will soon face an impossible choice: navigate our immigration system alone or risk detention and deportation.

Our city is stepping up. We've invested $16.9 million in immigration legal services for unaccompanied children, with another $32 million in this year's immigration legal services budget, including rapid-response legal advice and representation for people in detention.

If you need immigration legal support, we're here to help. Our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline is available in your preferred language, regardless of immigration status.
Call 1-800-354-0365
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
👀 “The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties” - @jamestalarico.bsky.social This is good stuff.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
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CoreCivic has sold told two more detention centers to DHS, in Minnesota and Kansas, for $734 million. Company says more sales possible: https://ir.corecivic.com/news-releases/news-release-details/corecivic-sells-two-additional-detention-facilities

This news follows the sale of two ICE facilities in California last month for $1.5 billion: 
https://latimes.com/politics/story/2026-07-07/dhs-buys-two-california-immigrant-detention-centers-for-1-5-billion
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CoreCivic Sells Two Additional Detention Facilities | CoreCivic, Inc.
The Investor Relations website contains information about CoreCivic, Inc.'s business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
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Follows Sales of Two Detention Facilities in California
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Aug. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (CoreCivic or the Company) announced today that it has completed the sales of its 1,600-bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minnesota and its 1,033-bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas to the United States of America and its assigns, by and through the Department of Homeland Security for an aggregate gross sales price of $734.0 million, including $495.6 million for the Prairie Correctional Facility and $238.4 million for the Midwest Regional Reception Center. These purpose-built facilities were specifically designed to care for individuals in a secure environment. After federal and state income taxes of approximately $182.2 million and transaction costs, the Company anticipates its net proceeds from these asset sales to be approximately $522.5 million. The Company currently expects to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include debt reduction and the repurchase of the Company's common stock.
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L'il @marontheweb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I cannot wait to see how this gambit works out for the DOJ after they've gone and ballsed up any reasonable claim to the presumption of regularity. Federal Judges Criticize Trump’s Justice Department for “Unethical” Conduct — ProPublica share.google/A5M6nNsAFbka...
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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L'il @marontheweb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"The Pentagon has tried to mask the total price tag — including from Congress — by taking the funds from a classified budget for nuclear modernization." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
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Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Trump His New Air Force One
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
People act like it’s impossible to do the right thing and succeed but its actually pretty easy to do it and have everyone love you and you can even be a goofy silly guy and do it
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“It’s gone from them not sharing information … to them actively covering it up” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) - a U.S. Army veteran who represents West Point - about Trump Admin. handling of War in Iran
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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There’s few things more outrageous and unacceptable than playing games with casualty numbers. House and Senate Armed Services: calling a hearing on this and demanding an explanation from Hegseth immediately is appropriate and necessary.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hegseth should never have made working out central to the identity of the SecDef. Physical fitness has basically nothing to do with that job. But since he has, it's particularly embarrassing that he doesn't know how pull-ups work.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
i deeply resent having to think about upstream food safety because i am supposed to be able to eat like a carefree raccoon
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Exactly. The president is going to spin some incredible lies about the 2020 election and the media -- and every single Democrat in the country -- has to be ready to smack this bullshit down immediately. Not a mealy-mouthed fact check or, golly, this is weird. Call it out as an assault on democracy.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If the Secretary of Education wants to be serious about protecting students from adult predators, she should ask her colleague Acting AG Todd Blanche why he’s been so solicitous of Ghislaine Maxwell, who recruited and groomed girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his buddies. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...
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U.S. Department of Education Launches National K-12 Initiative to Protect Students from Adult Sexual Predators in Schools
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today launched a national K-12 initiative to crack down on sexual predators in schools.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨🚨 So ICE removed all Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's personal effects--wallet, phone, etc--after shooting him before they put him in an ambulance. Is that normal law enforcement practice? Or does it suggest a coverup or attempt to manage information was underway from the beginning?
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is the most hilarious little league home run I've ever seen, the Royals have outdone themselves
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
FIFA Shadow Docket
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommu...
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Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 30/06/2026
The Epstein Files showed that without transparency, abuse can be ignored for years. That is why I voted to require disclosure of Congressional misconduct settlements, while protecting survivors. We must stop allowing ethical violations to be buried by those in power.
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L'il @marontheweb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fuck this
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major Vatican office under the new pontificate.
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Pope Leo names Salesian sister as prefect of Vatican’s human development dicastery
Pope Leo XIV has named Sr. Alessandra Smerilli prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Vatican announced June 30, making her the latest woman elevated to lead a major Va...
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ohio women who lost their wanted pregnancies are urging lawmakers to support abortion care, four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion rights ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/30/f...
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Four years on from Dobbs, Ohio has abortion protection, but threats still remain • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio women who lost their wanted pregnancies are urging lawmakers to support abortion care, four years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nationwide abortion rights.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social
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Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In which you are a refugee desperately fleeing for your life but also don’t want to ride a bus
Africaaners don’t want to ride the bus story
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