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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16h
Gulf of Tonkin, but in the "Gulf of America."
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Michael Scott: Nope. Don't Like That.
ALT: Michael Scott: Nope. Don't Like That.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We often talk about the judiciary in the context of hot-button issues like Roe, but the courts are just as much an enabler of oligarchy. Zachary Groz looks at a new report that names 10 judges most responsible for the corporate court, including several nominated by Democrats.
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How the Courts Became a Safe Haven for Corporations - The American Prospect
A new report details how the judiciary has become more corporate over the past few decades—and names the specific judges who are most responsible.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Democrats working hard on precisely how much they should pull their punches against the corporate oligarchy after the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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‘We don’t want to turn into a banana republic’: Dems preview rift on Trump corporate crackdown
Democrats are united by the idea of aggressive oversight of the administration but at odds over how far to go after corporate America.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4h
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons & military detention camps over the 3 years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society & the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. That count covers... www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
🇵🇸 At least 92 Palestinians have died in Israeli torture prisons and military detention camps over the three years since the genocide began, according to a new report from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees' Affairs. 

That count covers only those whose identities have been confirmed. The fate of dozens more detainees from Gaza remains unknown due to enforced disappearance.

The report documents an escalating system of arrest, torture, starvation and denial of medical care that has led to killings inside prisons and camps. It also found:

➤ More than 26,000 arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem
➤ More than 800 women and 2,000 children arrested
➤ More than 3,100 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial, and 1,419 held as "unlawful combatants"
➤ Israel is holding the bodies of 100 Palestinians who died in custody

The groups also pointed to Israel's approval of a law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners, and to the growing use of "incitement" charges to arrest Palestinians over their speech, which they say has created a climate of fear and self-censorship.

With no independent oversight and the Red Cross still barred from visiting prisoners, the report says what is happening inside Israel's prisons "cannot be separated from the genocide."

🔗 Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documented his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin for Drop Site. Read our latest: "Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison" below.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
all schools of constitutional jurisprudence, to some extent, are the intellectual equivalent woo-woo ritual magick
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22h
Paramount has closed its $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Billionaire David Ellison now controls: —CNN —CBS —HBO —Paramount —Warner Bros —Discovery —Skydance —Showtime —DC Studios —Nickelodeon —Cartoon Network —Food Network —MTV —Comedy Central —HGTV —TBS —TLC
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 15h
MSF Says Israel Is 'Asphyxiating' Gaza, With Palestinians Pushed Into 'Smaller and Smaller Area' www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ye...
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MSF Says Israel Is 'Asphyxiating' Gaza, With Palestinians Pushed Into 'Smaller and Smaller Area' | Common Dreams
After a year of creeping westward, the IDF now occupies 65% of Gaza, squeezing 2.1 million Palestinians into smaller areas. MSF struggles to provide aid as Israel restricts essentials, leading to illn...
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19h
We are at the peak of ICE's ability to organize support for its activities before Democrats start taking more power & disrupting their efforts. And even when we do places like Florida will double down on state support to help facilitate whatever Congress tries to prevent.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 21h
Last week, a federal district judge paused enforcement of a New York state law that banned landlords from using a centralized algorithmic platform to set rents. buff.ly/NiEKf5N
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How the Courts Became a Safe Haven for Corporations - The American Prospect
A new report details how the judiciary has become more corporate over the past few decades—and names the specific judges who are most responsible.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amnesty: "Israel has established & maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis–a system of apartheid–wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948"
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also worth recalling that as Secretary of State, Pompeo continued to sign off on arms sales to Saudi Arabia even after the RSAF attacked a school bus full of Yemeni kids using a U.S.-origin PGM.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Jamal Khashoggi was killed eight years ago today. Here's what @joelsimonsays.bsky.social and I said the US should do in response. Virtually none of it happened. MBS got away with murder. knightcolumbia.org/content/how-...
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How America Can Deliver Justice for Jamal Khashoggi
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The president's practice of expelling journalists whose stories he doesn't like is an insult to our democracy, and congress and the courts have already allowed it to go on for too long. www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/m...
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One amid press access lawsuit | CNN Business
The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 05/10/2026
The usual suspects aren't panicking about the bond market gods the way they do when someone proposes spending a million bucks to feed children
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
today in zionism
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
“The day after I lost $1,800 on basketball in one night … an email popped into my inbox. ‘Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase,’ the subject line read. I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded.”
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
University of Michigan today. The most tipping-point image I've seen to exemplify our fascist descent. And the surrender was won with the weapon of false antisemitism charges against people protesting genocide--making administrations complicit in genocide. A moral nadir. This is how republics die.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amnesty: "Israel has established & maintained an institutionalized regime of oppression and domination of the Palestinian population for the benefit of Jewish Israelis–a system of apartheid–wherever it has exercised control over Palestinians’ lives since 1948"
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Life has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. We all use the internet far more, and are far less likely to read books, host friends, attend parties, play cards, attend classes, join clubs, go to picnics, and stay late to work. www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
Americans are increasingly aware of the surveillance systems used by almost 80 percent of police departments to trace vehicles and drivers without a warrant—and they are pissed.
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Welcome to the Flock elections
Candidates across the spectrum are suddenly campaigning against the spread of license plate cameras.
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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's very clear from @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social's book Crossing the Red Line that Biden's enabling of Israel's wars paved the way for everything Trump has done in the region. Biden shielded Israel from the consequences of its aggressive actions and abandoned diplomacy with Iran. He set the table
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Politics is so awesome because once you trick people into thinking you're a good consultant or polling guru or whatever, it becomes impossible for you to do anything but fail up. Sarah Longwell had the wrongest possible take you could have about the 2024 election and somehow it RAISED her stature.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed in Person
Odyssey Bookshop in Western MA, a woman-owned indie offering primarily new books, gifts, and Mount Holyoke College merchandise.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really good piece from @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social and Wendy Wagner on Suncor and the importance of federalism -- and state-court litigation -- to democracy's fight against authoritarianism. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court
Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
silence is complicity
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not just Flock. And it's not just license plate readers. Great piece from my colleague @gideonepstein.bsky.social on the many invasive surveillance technologies pushed by private companies and adopted by police—almost entirely absent democratic debate or oversight. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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Flock is just one part of the new surveillance state
"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon...
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 02/10/2026
Will is 100% right. Has happened to multiple clients of mine. One judge (not my case) has said that this isn't really release and ordered the person *actually* released. But it's forcing us habeas attorneys to win our cases twice (or more)
On September 9, 2026, Respondents permitted Pablo F. to exit the building where 
he was detained, but he was immediately swarmed by four ICE officers and handcuffed as 
soon as he stepped outside. (Doc. No. 25-3 at 4:48:45–4:49:26.)3
 The officers drove him
to the back of the Whipple building and returned him to a holding cell. (Doc. No. 21 ¶¶ 8–
9; Doc. No. 25 ¶ 5.) During this encounter, officers dislocated Pablo F.’s shoulder. (Doc. 
No. 21 ¶ 7.)4
 Pablo F. now bringsthis Motion seeking to enforce the Court’s Order granting 
the Petition.Again, Respondents make no attempt whatsoever to support their assertion that 
Pablo F. was released. Absent any such argument, the Court cannot agree that a reasonable 
person would have felt free to leave when exiting the detention facility and immediately 
being stopped by ICE officers. Likewise, absent some argument, the Court necessarily 
concludes that Pablo F. was subject to restraints not shared by the public generally when 
he took one step outside of the detention facility and was immediately stopped by ICE 
officers who forcibly returned him to a detention cell. Because Respondents do not make 
any legal argument that Pablo F. was ever meaningfully released from custody, the Court 
grants the motion and orders Pablo F.’s release.6
6 To be clear, Pablo F. is not arguing, and the Court is not concluding, that an order of 
release in a habeas matter renders unlawful any future arrests. Rather, the Court reaches 
the narrow conclusion that because Respondents advance no legal argument in this case to 
support their assertion that Pablo F. was released from custody, and because the 
uncontested facts show that ICE officers immediately swarmed Pablo F. as soon as he 
stepped out of the building, Pablo F. was not released from custody.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After all, it is the thought that counts.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Egyptian authorities have still not released any information about the fate of the six arrested @matsda2sh journalists, raising concerns that they have been disappeared. Authorities should immediately disclose their whereabouts and grant access to lawyers www.hrw.org/news/2026/10...
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Egypt: Authorities Arrest Entire Investigative Newsroom
Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on September 28 and 29 and appear to have forcibly disappeared them.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really important post by @datahistorian.bsky.social about the Trump Administration's threat (once again) to the census. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-2030-c...
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The 2030 Census is in Trouble
Trump wants to add a citizenship question and ban questions on race
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Jason Poulos @poulos.house · 02/10/2026
Seems to have gone unnoticed that the owner of Boston's Wilbur Theatre quickly acquiesced to the demand of a pro-fascist group and canceled Mahmoud Khalil's book talk last week (the event was moved to Somerville).
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Protesters persuade theater operator to pull out of Mahmoud Khalil event
"It's disappointing that Brookline Booksmith is still giving Khalil a platform, but this outcome nevertheless shows that activism works," Adar Rubin of EndJewHatred told JNS.
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mdslock @mdslock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Global Call for the Release of Entire Newsroom at Egyptian Investigative Journalism Platform Matsadaash eipr.org/en/press/202...
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Global Call for the Release of Entire Newsroom at Egyptian Investigative Journalism Platform Matsadaash | Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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