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Hume's Ghost @humesghost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We basically have a federal government office of white supremacy and we're collectively shrugging as a nation. What is wrong with us?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Thousands of detained immigrants with “Final Orders of Removal” have had their records hidden or deleted from ICE’s tracking system, leaving families and lawyers unable to locate them.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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The Charlotte Observer @charlotteobserver.com · 23/09/2026
A Charlotte first-grader and her mother were detained by ICE after a judge no-showed and a fake lawyer failed to help, NC immigrant advocates say.
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Charlotte first-grader and mother detained by ICE after ‘fake lawyer’ misled family
A Charlotte first-grader and her mother were detained by ICE after a judge no-showed and a fake lawyer failed to help, NC immigrant advocates say.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 18/09/2026
The same day that we found out we almost had WWIII with China due to faulty information from an LLM, it’s reported that Palantir’s Maven AI was part of the faulty decision loop that killed 120 schoolchildren. A lot of us suspected that last part but this is detailed reporting. It’s so idiotic.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Lisa @notrocketscience.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This time it's not cattle cars, it's planes. This is being done in our name, America.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As expected, the suspension of voters in Texas was very carefully crafted to target Democratic voters in major Democratic centers. This is how the Texas GOP controls the state: by insuring that it has the lowest levels of voter participation in the entire developed world.
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Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 21/08/2026
You know what even locally hosted LLMs are great at? Reverse engineering the proprietary code of big tech and writing copies that are, we are repeatedly told by big tech, not copyright infringing. I am really looking forward to AI companies trying to thread that needle in copyright law.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It will take a hell of a lot for me to ever forgive the people who did this, as well as those who cheer them on.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 04/08/2026
Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her as she sat quietly in the front yard of her DC home
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Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her at her DC home
National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
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Tom Cross 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @decius.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Important context for this story is that this appears to be a case where the border search exception was used pretextually to go after someone for political reasons.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
ICE detained an Oakland resident at Denver airport just before she could step on a plane to fly home. oaklandside.org/2026/07/22/i...
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ICE detained an Oakland resident at Denver airport
Chantal Morales Rojas’ friends say they are trying to free the 27-year-old software engineer from a detention center experiencing a tuberculosis outbreak.
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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Admittedly a US thing, but I think folks should reflect that Kimi, the open-weight AI model by $20b-valued Moonshot AI everyone is freaking out about, was developed by someone who went to CMU and then didn't stay in the US mostly because visas would prevent him setting up a US business
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
“We know what to do, but if we don't have personnel, a lot of it can't get done.”
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.
Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Social media thought the Trump summoned Patel to rebuke him for his jet-skiing adventures. Silly social media! Trump doesn't care about corruption. He summoned him to direct a lawfare campaign against the NYT. Remember friends, this isn't a soap opera. It's fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...
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White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting (Gift Article)
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/07/2026
We've long said that when the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security. This is as clear an example as you can get.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/07/2026
Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com
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Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One | CNN Politics
Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet repor...
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A lawsuit alleges that ICE beat a man, causing his existing disabilities to worsen and get new ones. Once he was in ICE detention, the lawsuit says, he was mocked by detention staff and didn't regularly get his medication. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Lawsuit accuses ICE and private prison contractors of abuse a disabled detainee
Ulises Peña López says guards taunted him — telling him he'd never walk again — while withholding the medication he needed.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11/07/2026
Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet reported Friday. cnn.it/4f7Jjyb
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The people calling this a whites only refugee policy are importantly wrong, in that none of the Boers are refugees come on. It's a zero refugee policy and an insultingly stupid whites only special migration program
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...
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Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm do...
High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought
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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 04/07/2026
Here’s a new tool I’ve been working on. A new approach to self-hosted distributed storage. apenwarr.ca/log/20260704
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thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything
Happy July 4th! For those of us around the world contemplating independence, it's a good day to think about how we came to rely on expensiv...
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Silly B Man @lawnerd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Well that’s simply wire fraud.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/01/2026
He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/07/2026
I have a bipartisan bill to protect reporters in this exact position but no surprise, Trump killed it. I'll keep at it until reporters have these bare minimum protections.
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Supreme Court Allows Reporter to Be Fined for Failing to Disclose Source
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/06/2026
Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship: good. Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship 5-4 instead of 9-0: terrifying.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They're plundering the national treasury.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...
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Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal
Axon Enterprise has ramped up lobbying in Congress on federal law enforcement technology as ICE pursues a potential $220 million Taser deal.
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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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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 25/06/2026
Head Minneapolis precinct election judge here: Relevant section of the Minneapolis elections manual. Would note ICE agents ARE NOT police. Will keep you posted on our training this year about what to do in this situation, but I would ask them to leave and have other judges call head office.
Authorized visitors
GET YOUR HEJ/AHEJ Only authorized people can be in or near the polling place. Your HEJ/AHEJ is responsible for
questions about who is allowed in the room. See also discussion of the buffer zone on page 132.
• Someone assisting a voter •
Children accompanying their parents •
Someone vouching for a voter •
Observers with written authorization from the state, county, or municipal election office. Common visitors in this category may include trained volunteers checking the accessibility of polling places, U.S. Department of Justice observers, and international election officials here
to learn how we run elections.
• Challengers
Must be appointed in writing by a party or nonpartisan candidate. See page 129 more.
Media
Can observe the voting process. See page 128 for more.
Exit pollsters Exit pollsters can be in the buffer zone or the building, but not in the voting room. See page
129 for more of the rules.
Someone making a written complaint
See page 114. •
Police officers (if requested by election judges to keep order)
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/06/2026
Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal. If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his. Our statement:
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Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets
Draconian sentence threatens journalists and news consumers
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026
this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is just batshit crazy. You got to be pretty deep into the cult to buy this nonsense. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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