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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

BREAKING: U.S. diesel fuel prices just hit another record this morning — soaring past $6 a gallon.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 11/09/2026

The 170,000 documents that were released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration reveal how government officials—especially Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg—deceived New Yorkers about the dangerous chemicals that were in the air in the days and months following 9/11.

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So my book, The Language of Theft, is officially for pre-sale. (It’s not nerve-racking at all.) I’d love for you all to consider pre-ordering it. And if you do, I’d love it if you’d consider pre-ordering it from an indie bookseller. Thank you! bookshop.org/beta-search?...

My book is now on pre-sale order. In the picture it states it’s available at Harpercollins.com. The name
of the book is the language of theft by Maya Contreras how the wealthy fund narratives that rob America of our common sense

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Lots of us saw A YEAR AGO that Platner never should have run in the first people because you don’t support people with Nazi tattoos. We said that if this is the oppo that’s coming out, wait until he’s the nominee. I’m thankful Maine has another week to find a new nominee.

in September: Graham Platner, eh? Sounds like a decent communicator.
Me last week: Oh Lawd. He said what???
Me a few days later: Oof. Weak apology.
Me a day after that: Wait, he said what about women and alcohol now?
Me a day after that: He's Fetterman 2.0.
Me yesterday: He worked for Blackwater!?
Me today: A Nazi tattoo?!!!!
Me now: Folks. Come on. Let him go. No. 1/2

If he didn't have anything to hide, then he didn't need to worry about Oppo research. Turns out he needed to worry about the research.
mayatcontreras... 10/21/25

Dear
Guys defending this,
Stop. You're part of the problem. You're hurting yourselves and others by defending symbols of white supremacy.
He knew what it was. I guerentee his tattoo artist knew. My whole back it's tattooed my husband is sleeved, we get tattoos every year. None bigoted. Your tattoo artist tells you when you're getting a Nazi tattoo, some refuse to do it, those who don't, condone it. Be better than this. We've fighting NZ everyday, no need to defend the symbols or ignorance.

mayatcontreras • › Graham Platner &
3/9/26
I gotta laugh. I spent years in the punk and hardcore scenes. I was a drummer in punk bands. Anyone who was actually in that scene knows your association with it didn't automatically mean you were anti-fascist or anti-racist. There was a grotesque amount of white supremacy circulating in punk spaces. Saying you
"listened to punk music" doesn't prove you're "anti-fascist," and it definitely doesn't mean you're anti-racist. Having a Nazi tattoo on your own body illustrates that point. 1/3
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Graham Platner: "I've been a pretty dedicated anti-fascist since I was about 12. I was imbued with a deep hatred of Nazis from an early age. To find oneself being accused of...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fox poll: Georgia registered voters Jon Ossoff (D) 56% Mike Collins (R) 43%

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/06/2026

BOOOOOOOOOOO

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One for the scrapbook, folks.

Out of Town Pool Report #9 - POTUS booed
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booed
POTUS was thunderously booed when he was shown on the Jumbotron during the National anthem. It was loud and long, but quickly changed to cheers when the camera quickly panned to Jalen Brunson on the court.
POTUS was standing with his hand over his heart during the national anthem. He was standing between Kai Trump and James Dolan who seemed to be smirking at the boos.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

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Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. @annepmitchell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

YES!!! COURT SCHOOLS HEGSETH IN PENTAGON PRESS PASS CASE! Last week I told you how the administration's attorneys in the Pentagon press access case actually had to file *corrections* to statements they had made in court ...

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/04/2026

“Everybody hates us, what should we do?” “The only thing that will get people back on our side. An armed overthrow of the Pope.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

literally, from the top of my pre-oral argument notes

screenshot of the top of my prep notes, with the second bullet point highlighted

Things I’m interested in:
- Whether and to what extent GOP justices try to make it seem like this is an open question, including by invoking an 'entire literature'
- Whether and to what extent Trump butchers federal Indian law, and Gorsuch gets on his ass for it
-Also recall that Wong Kim Ark literally says “The decision in Elk v. Wilkins concerned only members of the Indian tribes within the United States, and had no tendency to deny citizenship to children born in the United States of foreign parents of Caucasian, African or Mongolian descent not in the diplomatic service of a foreign country.”

screenshot of a classic tweet from @ByYourLogic reading

Gorsuch normally: it's completely within an employer's rights to castrate any employee
Gorsuch on reservation law: I am issuing this ruling from Piscataway land,

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

Cecilia Wang, National Legal Director of the ACLU, on DOJ saying they're not asking the Supreme Court to overrule Wong Kim Ark: "That is a fatal concession" fuck em up Cecilia

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision. Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.

lawdork.com

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Flazlo @fleezlow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Graham Platner Is The Real Deal Provided You Have No Follow Up Questions About Anything He Did Before 2024.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 08/03/2026

Volunteers document every ICE Air flight operating through the Twin Cities; our work enables the only reliable, near real-time accounting of how many people are being sent away from their homes around Minnesota. Please help support our work via MN50501: mn50501.org/donate/

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Donate – MN50501

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 08/03/2026

Today we observed six shackled detainees being loaded onto the ICE Air flight at MSP. They're heading to El Paso, where conditions are so horrific, staff gamble on who the next prisoner to commit suicide will be. The man walking from right to left at the beginning of the clip is dragging shackles.

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about the families who lost parents, children, and siblings in this attack today because of a convicted sexual assaulter who appears countless times in the Epstein files and is trying to redirect our attention from that fact. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Evergreen skeet, unfortunately.

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

So tired of armchair quarterbacks like this. You may not like their policies and that’s fair but Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett have dedicated their lives to public service. You can respect that. Also, assuming that Jasmine Crockett would lose? Maybe investigate where that notion is coming from.

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Jeremy Fassler @jfassler.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The base of the Democratic Party are Black women. That base loves both Kamala Harris and Jasmine Crockett. Every time someone complains about this, ask them who they think the base is.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/02/2026

She’s making it happen, y’all. @jasmineforus.bsky.social is activating non-voters just like she said she would. “55% of the people that showed up on day one don’t normally vote in a primary. In fact, 20% of those voters were first-time voters.” 💥

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

DHS shut down over demands to end masking, profiling, excessive force and use of admin warrants to enter homes. I’ll discuss at 11 pm on @msnownews.bsky.social

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I feel like this is pretty key. Newsom is signaling that he wants to throw trans people under every available bus. that is a reason to denounce him, not to preemptively demand that trans people endorse him. 1

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Macbeth - Act 5, Scene 5:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The Conscience of a Libertarian

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

folks, this is some really weird shit. the president is not well.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/01/2026

NEW: "We shouldn’t even have an election,” Trump said as he complained about the possibility of his party losing the midterms. The remark is just the latest to suggest the president views elections as an obstacle rather than a constitutional requirement.

democracydocket.com

Trump: ‘We shouldn’t even have an election’

Read more here.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The gaslighting is not just off the charts - it's in whole another galaxy. But, this is also a sign of desperation. He knows. They know - except for their MAGA core just watching their edited frames, everyone else knows the objective reality.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/01/2026

If you are more interested in telling people what you think than you are in hearing what they think, you're not interested in news, you're interested in podcasting.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2/ These descriptions of Weiss are also spot on: "the oligarch functionary" "Weiss is not a reporter, let alone an investigative reporter" "an editor who is both determined to kill a piece and, frankly, out of her depth"

I'M NOTICING A PATTERN among certain people within my profession who've jumped to the defense of Bari Weiss, the oligarch functionary installed at CBS by new owner David Ellison to enforce ideological discipline upon its journalists. Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy. Such people would not understand what it means to censor the 60 Minutes piece about the CECOT torture prison, because they don't understand what it takes to produce it. As it happens, I do.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This is quite a read about the BW attack on 60 Minutes. I'm glad it also highlights the incredibly solid reporting in the piece, a fact that has been largely overlooked in this red hot debate about Weiss' actions. Yes, what Sharyn Alfonsi & her team did here is journalism. Damn good journalism.

Midway through the 15-minute piece, we learn that Alfonsi's team verified—through ICE's own data—a Human Rights Watch finding that "at least half" of the 252 Venezuelan migrants Trump rendered to CECOT this spring had no criminal history. Only eight of them had been convicted of a "violent or potentially violent" offense, in direct contrast to the administration's portrayal of who it rendered to CECOT. While the administration declined to cooperate with 60 Minutes, its claims about the purposes to which it conducted the renditions are presented, even as the reporting conducted contradicts them. Alfonsi, displaying a maximum effort at transparency and credibility, spends precious minutes of screen time showing how investigators conducted the verification process for claims made about CECOT. This is journalism.

Unless you're Bari Weiss. Weiss didn't think the CECOT piece met her standards—standards which, at her outlet The Free Press, permitted the publication of a revisionist history of George Floyd's murder so factually egregious that Radley Balko wrote a lengthy and detailed refutation. She pulled the piece, ostensibly until it could better present the administration's perspective. In a memo, Weiss shows she either didn't watch the piece attentively or misunderstood it, writing at one point, "Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories." Incorrect: when Alfonsi places ICE spreadsheets of CECOT detainees on camera—see around the 7:43 minute mark in the link provided above—the viewer can see that in many of these cases someone's criminal record is inconclusive,

something Alfonsi remarks upon in voice-over. Alfonsi was being methodologically conservative when reporting that "at least half" of the rendered Venezuelans lacked a criminal history. No wonder the Standards & Practices authority at CBS News approved her piece.

Weiss additionally claims that the piece doesn't "advance" a "much-covered" story, despite the presence of survivors of CECOT on-camera presenting jarring details of both their torture and the standard operating procedures inside one of the world's most infamous prisons. Weiss is not a reporter, let alone an investigative reporter. As both, and as someone who has reported on detainee abuses for the better part of two decades, I can tell you that whatever you might assume, it is in fact difficult to convince people to talk

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

In the end, it was all a morally perverse spectacle to amuse his Christian Nationalist base on Christmas—It was late in the evening on Dec25 when residents of the mainly Muslim village of Jabo in Sokoto state, NW Nigeria, said they noticed an object resembling a small aircraft flying overhead.

ft.com

Why bomb Sokoto? Trump’s strikes baffle Nigerians

US missile attacks on Christmas Day hit a part of Nigeria’s north-west that is almost entirely Muslim

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Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Marc Elias is one of the heroes of our time, leaving Big Law to fight this assault on democracy at every level. Heather Cox Richardson is my second inspiration, using her deep history knowledge to show how these disparate attacks fit larger patterns—and to chart a path forward against all adversity.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

forever-wars.com

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 08/12/2025

Democrats are demanding the release of the full video of the Sept. 2 attack, as well as written records of the orders and any directives about the mission from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. None of the written orders or audio of verbal commands was shared with the lawmakers.

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Admiral Says There Was No 'Kill Them All' Order in Boat Attack, But Video Alarms Lawmakers

Adm.Frank “Mitch” Bradley told lawmakers Thursday that there was no “kill them all” order given during a strike on an alleged drug boat.

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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It’s clear MTG is an opportunist, not someone genuinely taking accountability for the harm she’s caused. The moment she was asked to own her toxic behavior, she deflected and became defensive. Don’t buy what she’s selling.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

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