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Mo Martin

@martimosmo.bsky.social
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Librarian in the Midwest. Beagle parent. Vegan.

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 18h
Another blow for unaccompanied immigrant minors. Now the Trump administration is taking over their legal representation. Yes, the same administration that is trying to deport them will also be the ones in charge of their defense. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1h
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 22h
Catch and release fishing is often portrayed as a harmless, even benevolent, pastime. Yet if we take fish pain seriously, it's a rather cruel activity. I talked to anglers/fish welfare experts about it, and dug into what happens to fish when they're caught and released:
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A visualization of Trump's plan to fortify and limit access to Lafayette Square, which has been closed to the public since January 2026
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...
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From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Come gaze upon the stupidity.
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Men said a lot of stupid sh*t yesterday
All the stupid shi*t men said yesterday
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Dots Connecting @dotsconnect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mental Health is on the ballot. Los Angeles & San Diego have been notified, and the rest of U.S. as well, just in the silence. Some are laughing, until they’re not. VOTE 🗳️ for compassion and empathy; Good health
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On so many level, this is an abomination, but my beat is Appropriations, and so: “Under the proposal, Venezuela’s gold revenue would flow into an account controlled by the U.S. Treasury, which would then dole it out” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w....
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 23/09/2026
The White House launching "Trump TV" using taxpayer funds is propaganda, and a federal crime. @cerin.bsky.social and @rachelegoodman.bsky.social explain the law barring taxpayer-funded propaganda media and what the fallout could look like. ➡️ Read the full analysis: protdem.org/4dLXvwP
A document titled "If you can keep it" features a headline "Trump TV is propaganda — and a crime" dated September 22, 2026, with the subheading "The 'Anti-Publicity & Propaganda Rider' explained." Below are images of a phone displaying a "TRUMP TV" website and a person in a vehicle seen through an open window. An American flag icon is at the top right.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When authoritarian regimes collapse, their leaders experience symbolic deaths, largely through the destruction & removal of monuments that they've built to glorify themselves and affirm their power. Sometimes called "iconoclasm," who gets a statue or monument is always a symbolic struggle for power.
6th July 1945: A bust of Adolf Hitler lies amidst the ruins of the Chancellery, Berlin. Reg Speller/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesA picture taken on August 22, 1991 shows a crowd watching the statue of KGB founder Dzerzhinsky being toppled on Lubyanskaya square in Moscow. ANATOLY SAPRONENKOV/AFP/Getty ImagesIraqis, with the help of U.S. troops, topple a monument to Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad in 2003. One journalist described the toppling of Saddam as “the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima.”Hungarians stand over the toppled statue of Joseph Stalin on Oct. 23, 1956.Credit...Andor D. Heller/Hungarian News Agency
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/09/2026
On November 3, when voters across the US go to the polls, almost 200 election deniers will be on the ballot. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
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Hundreds of Election Deniers Will Be on the Ballot This November
197 election deniers are running for Congress or statewide office in 43 states. Many of them are seeking roles that would put them in charge of voting for the 2028 presidential election.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just American taxpayers with jobs and families, asylum seekers with no criminal record, held in miserable conditions at Guantanamo because of their race/national origin
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Imagine a job where, faced with a difficult decision, you could just stop going to work www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Scoop: 4 anonymous accounts that perfectly correspond w/ Trump & sons’ holdings have taken first step to enable offloading of family’s own crypto, records show Could be worth billions of dollars Meanwhile, retail investors have lost +$1B www.washingtonsun.com/donald-trump...
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Is the Trump Family Preparing to Cash Out on Its Own Crypto?
President Donald Trump and his three sons have taken a step that would permit them to sell World Liberty Financial’s digital tokens.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Legacy media stooges ignore it. When Trump is trying to wreck mail-in voting on the pretext that Democrats “cheat,” his fascist pledge obliging followers to cheat on his behalf should have been front-page news.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW: Democrats vow aggressive investigations into Trump ‘corruption’ and ‘grift’ if they win the House ROBERT GARCIA tells me: “No. 1 is going to be Trump family corruption” & “grift.” 2) Epstein files, 3) Trump immigr agenda, 4) “corporate corruption,” 5) RFK/HHS. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Democrats vow aggressive investigations into Trump ‘corruption’ and ‘grift’ if they win the House
Rep. Robert Garcia would most likely chair the Oversight Committee, while Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., is in line to chair the Judiciary Committee. Here’s how they would use that power.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026
ICYMI: I talked with Mohamed Barry, a longtime resident of Indiana, about what it was like to be taken from his family and expelled to a country he’s never been to on a hellish, 26-hour flight. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
'What America Did to Me Is Wrong': Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far
BY GILLIAN BROCKELL
AUGUST 31, 2026
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.For the first few hours of the
Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight over the Atlantic Ocean, Mohamed Barry continued to act like himself, which is to say, he expected to be visible to the people around him.
So as GEO Group flight security guards stood over him and the other shackled passengers, chatting casually with each other, he asked them what country he was going to be deported to. They didn't answer.
When the guards started drinking from red and blue plastic cups and the smell of alcohol wafted over to his seat, he asked one of them point-blank, "Are you guys allowed to drink on the job?" No response.Then a man from Eritrea or Somalia, Barry isn't sure which, began to beg the guards to let him use the lavatory. Barry chimed in with an appeal to decency, telling the guards, "Please consider us as human beings." But the guards were boisterous by that point, he said, and they didn't appreciate the man's increasingly loud and desperate pleas crashing their party.
Barry watched as a guard turned and looked at the man dead in the face and said, "You. Can pee on. You." Another guard laughed.
"After seeing that, I just kept my head down," Barry, 52, told me over the phone last week.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Commentary: Maybe Gov DeWine will surprise us, and maybe Ohio’s U.S. senators will grow a spine to save an Ohio city and the immigrant population that revitalized it. I wish somebody of either party would seize the moment with the moral courage it demands ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/03/o...
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Ohio officials in state, Congress, need to step in after death of young Haitian student • Ohio Capital Journal
Maybe Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will surprise us, and maybe Ohio’s U.S. senators will grow a spine to save an Ohio city and the immigrant population that revitalized it. I wish somebody of either party…
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026
"Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches"
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he may also be the most dangerous.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every day that the mainstream media don't report loudly and urgently that the president is insane is a day in which they're committing journalistic malpractice.
Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
in the Trump admin's view, Trump should be allowed to keep working towards unconstitutional goals, and only after he achieves them can courts (maybe) do anything about it federal district judges have rejected that view---but the Supreme Court has embraced it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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How the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock
A president who loves breaking the law is very lucky to have a Supreme Court that gives him the time he needs to do it.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 02/09/2026
A new documentary from Al Jazeera's Fault Lines follows families in St. Lucia and Colombia who believe their loved ones were killed at sea by U.S. airstrikes.
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Gallagher @mgallagher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I like that he used his booking photo so everyone can see he’s a criminal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hook this right into my veins.
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Leslie Street @lesliestreet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Libraries are under attack on so many fronts all at the same time. This PEN America report is a must read.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Right-wing media and the Trump administration have used video footage published by O’Keefe to sow doubt about primary elections and the upcoming midterms.
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James O’Keefe and right-wing content creators are using disguises and fake identities to trick poll workers and undermine confidence in elections
Former Project Veritas CEO James O’Keefe and several other right-wing content creators have recently released videos targeting election processes across the country, including Minnesota's voter vouche...
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NPR @npr.org · 01/09/2026
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. n.pr/4xvMl7f
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
FYI... 🧾 FDA Announces Recall of Mangoes Sold at Walmart Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination t2m.co/vx2ffuDj 🧾 Nearly 2,000 pounds of cat and dog food recalled. t2m.co/dmDQ6HwT 🧾 Tofu recalled over possible ink contamination; sold in 29 states t2m.co/F8SPQDC7
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FDA Announces Multistate Recall of Fruit Sold at Walmart
Here’s everything to know.
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Mo Martin @martimosmo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NYT: Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows Gift link: 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 (Gift Article)
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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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The funding was ultimately used to help defeat a citizen's ballot measure ... The grand jury concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to charge anyone criminally because 'nobody will take responsibility' for the decision to send the money to Hope Florida or 'had any memory of who made it.'"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rural hospitals closing or shutting down key departments like obstetrics will be one of the biggest stories of 2027. Democrats need to make it one of the biggest stories of the next two months.
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Republicans Built a Medicaid Time Bomb. It Goes Off After the Election.
It's Democrats' job to explain what's coming and who must be blamed by November.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park and give it to a private developer. The shocking directive reportedly comes directly from Trump officials. www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Mo Martin @martimosmo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tech Times: Haiti Deportation Flight Landed Thursday; Gang Massacred 47 in Kenscoff Three Days Later www.techtimes.com/articles/325...
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Haiti Deportation Flight Landed Thursday; Gang Massacred 47 in Kenscoff Three Days Later
Haiti deportation flights ramped up as the Trump administration sent 162 Haitian TPS holders to Cap-Haitien on August 20 -- then Viv Ansanm massacred 47 people and kidnapped more than 50 in Kenscoff t...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Following its mass de-legalization efforts, this administration is knowingly sending people, including children, back into danger in Haiti,” said Savi Arvey, director of policy refugee and immigrant rights at Human Rights First. “There is no limit to its cruelty and disregard for human life.”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a more significant breakdown in the fundamental bonds of the union than the headline might imply. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u... 🎁
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ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight (Gift Article)
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The number of service members seeking a formal discharge from the military as conscientious objectors has skyrocketed. Between the war in Iran and the boat strikes, they are opposed to violating international law and killing civilians.
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BOMBSHELL: Troops allege Hegseth and Trump pushing them to VIOLATE laws as discharge requests SURGE
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Mo Martin @martimosmo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NYT: ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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ICE Arrests Soar as People With No Criminal Record Are Increasingly Targeted (Gift Article)
As immigration arrests hit record highs, ICE appears closer than ever to meeting its goal of 2,000 daily arrests.
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Frank D. Russo @fdrtoday.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada Guardian Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after negotiations broke down, 25-50% tariffs estimated Full-fledged trade war threatens to flush away decades of trading A small thing people will notice bit.ly/4wNO3ji
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Peter Berger @peter-berger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Got the amazing opportunity to contribute to this year-long investigation. Filming with @paperwords.bsky.social in Tahoe was an unforgettable experience. Watch the full video on PBS NewsHour: youtu.be/9j0SXxyf9pI
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U.S. Forest Service, timber companies spraying record amounts of glyphosate in California
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From the Kennedy Center to the slush fund to the Reflecting Pool—deference to Trump is turning to defiance As I told @nytimes.com, our wins in those & many more cases help mark an inflection point: pro-democracy forces are standing up!
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In Canada and at Home, Deference to Trump Turns to Defiance on Tariffs and Other Issues (Gift Article)
While the president remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously than at the beginning of his second term.
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Mo Martin @martimosmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Trump Lawyers Warn That Kennedy Center Might Need Demolition if Not Fixed (Gift Article)
In a court filing about honoring President Trump on the facade, the administration said that without a proper renovation the building might need to be “taken down.”
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026
DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.
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Churches, libraries and breweries: Inside DHS' covert surveillance operation
DHS allegedly went undercover at community meetings, subpoenaed the financial records of labor unions, and created dossiers on people at a church gathering, according to court filings.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
don’t repurpose it or turn it into a museum or anything like that. destroy it. youtu.be/pkFNAd1DaaA
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No matter what, we have to tear down that ballroom
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Illinois law says local officials can't help federal agents deport people. So how did so many residents end up on ICE's radar through information shared by local police, sheriffs, and prosecutors? I filed 394 FOIA requests to find out. (An @injusticewatch.org partnership with @theintercept.com!)
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Illinois promised to protect immigrants. Local officials helped deport them anyway.
In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tired of shitting yourself because the GOP's trying to steal votes? Here's info from a veteran. I live in the US capitol of ballot fraud! The good ol' NC-09. I've personally been hit by two (2) NATIONAL NEWS-level GOP attempts to steal elections. BOTH 👏 FAILED 👏 because we WORKED. Here's how.
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