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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We teach young girls to cover their drinks. Walk with their keys between their knuckles. Dress modestly. Have a buddy system. Yell “fire”. By the time we’re adults we have a novel length list of rules to follow to avoid being raped. Many of us are raped anyways. That’s why we’re enraged.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One day worth of ICE flights 😮
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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 18/09/2026
🧵 The November election could reshape Wisconsin's voting laws before the 2028 presidential race. From our partners at @Votebeat.org: wisconsinwatch.org/2026/09/wisc...
Voter at a Wisconsin polling booth with an overlaid headline: "How the upcoming midterms could change Wisconsin election policy" and a subhead saying unified state control could reshape voting rules before the 2028 presidential election, with Wisconsin Watch and VoteBeat logos.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We often refer to this group as ISIS in the US.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thread of the day ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you follow me and want to help, I only have one request. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"I must be in the front row!" ~ Classic Miller Lite Beer commercial starring "Mr. #Baseball" Bob Uecker (1984) #MLB #Beer #LaborDay
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 25/08/2026
A Life of Many Colors - a cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I know I’ve recommended it here before but this is why Paper Girl by Beth Macy is a must read! The void created by the death of local newspapers has created a vulnerability ripe for exploitation.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Really time to reduce reliance on Amazon orders.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can we talk about Wisconsin’s misogynistic hold ups when it comes to the governorship or are we going to keep blaming it on other things? Asking for all of us fed up women who are tired of being told we have to vote for the boring dudes because it’s better than the alternative.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Let’s do this Wisconsin. VOTE!!!
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
@jennycohn.bsky.social consistently shares incredibly insightful threads. If you’re not following her you are missing a huge piece of the bigger picture. I mean, you will have fewer nightmares but is that really a responsible option at this point?
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
UFC fighter Sean Strickland: " When you're at a Trump rally, you're like, 'Oh, I could definitely see how Hitler happened'… It's a cult."
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today’s educational thread.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/07/2026
BREAKING: In a loss for voters, the D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling upholding parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting, including allowing: ✔️DHS to build a citizenship registry ✔️USPS to withhold mail ballots from states that don't share voter data with the government
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
🧊✈️ ICE AIR: Inside America's Secret Deportation Network "Due Process is not a game of keep away" Every day, volunteers across the U.S. track flights and show up to airports to monitor the ICE human trafficking network. This is our story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BsG...
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WATCH | ICE AIR: Inside America's Secret Deportation Network
YouTube video by 9NEWS
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Worth spending some time with this thread today.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Corey Ruiz
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The American Revolution was fought by brave men willing to die for liberty. Patriot Front is fought by cowards willing to hide for fascism. Please read, subscribe & share: johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/patriot-fr...
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Patriot Front: They're Not Patriots, & It's All A Front
aka the Dockers Reich; aka March of the Masked Mediocrities; aka The League of Extraordinary Virgins
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Gift article. Not mentioned in NYT, this is a Wonder Project film. Wonder Project is “secretly” financed by Leonard Leo. The lengths NYT will go to to provide cover for Leonard Leo. see www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/m...
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 06/06/2026
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler as excerpted in William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
My inner revulsion toward the Hapsburg State steadily grew... I was repelled by the conglomeration of races which the capital showed me, repelled by this whole mixture of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Serbs, and Croats, and everywhere the eternal mushroom of human-ity-Jews, and more Jews. To me the giant city seemed the embodiment of racial desecration...
The longer I lived in this city the more my hatred grew for the foreign mixture of peoples which had begun to corrode this old site of German culture... For all these reasons a longing rose stronger and stronger in me to go at last whither since my childhood secret desires and secret love had drawn me.63
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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Protest Trump in the Chippewa Valley! Friday, June 5 2 – 3pm Chippewa Valley Regional Airport Eau Claire, WI Details >> www.mobilize.us/mobi... #wipolitics #Wisconsin #WiResists
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Protest Donald Trump in the Chippewa Valley! · Mobilize
President Donald Trump is going to be in the Chippewa Valley on Friday (June 5) in the afternoon trying to rally people behind him for the midterms. He believes this is a good place to sell his economic agenda to the country and we plan to prove him wrong. We will protest at the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport on Starr Ave. from 2:00pm - 3:00pm. These times may change as the President's schedule changes. The theme of the protest will be Fighting for Affordability, so bring signs protesting inflation, gas prices, health care cuts, the Iran War and other ways Trump is hurting is hurting the wallets of Wisconsinites. Parking will be tricky so carpool or bus as best you can. The best parking options will be curbside parking in the neighborhood at Starr Ave and Willis Ave, Halie Ln, and North Ln. Sign up here to get notified of any changes to the protest as we hear about them.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Insightful thread on how our far right influencers are tied to Russian propaganda.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nazi gather in Portugal. Must be the vino verde and pasteis de nata. www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
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Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists?
Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it's not getting the coverage.
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Jesus Christ
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Another incredibly revealing thread from @jennycohn.bsky.social Take special note of #7.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans and Forward Latino, my law firm won our latest DOJ voter file case. We are 7-0. DOJ is 0-8. Not tired of winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
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🚨 United States of America v. Wisconsin Elections Commission
Learn more.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Check on the Chicago Cubs fans in your life. This series was like free therapy for Brewers fans. Love hearing “Let’s Go Brewers” being chanted at Wrigley!
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Napping our way through National Rescue Dog Day! 💤 🩷 🐾
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Do you think more or less people will participate in the next insurrection now that they know they will be pardoned AND paid?
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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 18/05/2026
Millions of Packers fans in Wisconsin will be forced to pay for Netflix just to watch our home team play. So yes, I do take issue with this deal. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...
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Senator Tammy Baldwin takes issue with Packers Thanksgiving Eve game on Netflix
Last month, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) introduced legislation aimed at ensuring free, over-the-air access by citizens of a given state to all nationally-televised games involving the teams headquart...
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
New video on Roger Severino youtube.com/shorts/9akZg...
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BOOK OF VILLAINS PART 11A — ROGER SEVERINO: THE POWER COUPLE #shorts
YouTube video by alfred Tom
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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More places in Wisconsin are pulling out of the Flock surveillance system. But police are already looking to replace Flock with another vendor. Privacy advocates warn of a “revolving door of surveillance companies”
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Foes of AI Surveillance Get Wins in Wisconsin. But They Fear They're Playing Whack-A-Mole. - Bolts
The sheriff in Wisconsin’s capital county will stop using dozens of AI surveillance cameras posted up across Madison and surrounding towns, after the Dane County Board of Supervisors pulled funding......
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Can we get a fraud/grift tracker? In the first term, the @nytimes.com had a lie tracker that was incredibly helpful. I’m not aware of a consolidated list of all the massive fraud taking place and there is a significant percentage of people completely unaware (or unwilling to admit).
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dear media - please use the phrase, “The president’s social media team posted…” instead of giving him direct credit. That anyone believed the man who can’t stay awake in a meeting was up all night rage posting on social media is beyond me.
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“There are currently more than 1,000 women incarcerated in Taycheedah, even though the facility was designed for just 650 people.”
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Meliwaukee @melgarves.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Nightmare fuel thread. Read it anyway please.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It just never ends! An FBI agent has questioned a top Wisconsin election official about the 2020 presidential election.
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FBI questions Wisconsin election official about 2020 presidential vote
A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent interviewed a high-ranking state election official in recent weeks about the 2020 presidential election.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In Wisconsin, the top 1% of earners pay just 6.6% of their income in state and local taxes, while the bottom 20% pay 10.8%. Wisconsin should join states like Washington and pass a #MillionaireTax to ease the burden on working families.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/04/2026
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. www.wired.com/story/new-ga...
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
ast month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case. She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide, where she’s contracted to help people making their way through the immigration court system, just as she did for herself 35 years ago when she immigrated from India to New Jersey before settling in Texas.

She planned to meet with her adult children in Austin after the Wisconsin trip, the only difference she foresaw in an otherwise typical trip. Her routine for years included flying from either Harlingen or Brownsville to far-flung parts of the country where South Asian immigrants needed language access. For this trip, the flight was out of Harlingen.

But, around 5 p.m. on March 17, Batra was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after passing through security at Harlingen International Airport. In a sworn deposition that was filed as part of a petition for habeas corpus—a legal request to be released on the grounds that the detention is unlawful—Batra said the people who arrested her did not have visible badges nor were they wearing uniforms. One of those agents had asked Batra if she knew she was in the country illegally and that she had a deportation order. She replied that her work authorization status, which she applied for regularly after being granted a legal status called withholding of removal by a New Jersey immigration judge decades ago, was good for another four years.

“That doesn’t mean you can be here forever,” the agent replied. Two more plainclothes agents would join the two that detained her, bringing her down the escalator and to the front of the airport.
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