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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Real Americans
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
For the all the vitriol Democrats get, the party is very close to completely unified around protecting trans people, and if you look at peer parties around the globe, that is conspicuously not the case
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This should be posted everywhere until the midterms and then some.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
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Prathyush @prathyvsh.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Academic UX designers discovering Aristotle and devising “Eudaimonic User Experience” operating system is something I didn’t expect to happen in 2024! Authored by Julian Joers and Ernesto De Luca: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Figure 4 from: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3656156.3663737Figure 5 from: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3656156.3663737
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
perfect picture
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
2. Trump is already floating the idea of tapping into supplies at other combatant commands. Talking about taking from PACOM to feed CENTCOM on day 3 is… rough. At this point, it’s a race to destroy their missiles before we have to ration our interceptors.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Some Dems are getting this right. But Schumer and others are saying Trump must merely divulge more details about the Iran threat. This implies there might be a legitimate case for war that Trump just has to be more open about. There's zero reason to grant that. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2072...
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.
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Rebecca @rebeccakell.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
If, like me, you thought, "I would have hidden Anne Frank's family from the Nazis," this is your chance to make that real. Sponsoring rent in MN is hiding a family from the Nazis. www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 28/02/2026
Aid cuts increased armed conflict in Africa - @cgdev.org www.cgdev.org/blog/us-aid-...
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US Aid Cuts Fueled Conflict in Africa
The cuts in US foreign aid have probably caused hundreds of thousands of people to die. But real-time data on what is actually going on has been scarce. A new working paper is the first I've seen to s...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
“In essence, what Hegseth is threatening is ‘I will either destroy you or nationalize you if you don’t give me unlimited permission to use your product as I wish.’ Seizing the factors of production is a communist sort of thing, isn’t it? And yet it has almost become the norm for the Trump admin.”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@sesmith.lol I just feel like you need to see this.
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Sue Ferrara @sferrara.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
@walterolson.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16/02/2026
Note: DHS has repeatedly claimed the agency "does NOT raid churches." It's unclear what they mean by "raid," but @rns.org already tracked at least 10 reports *by last August* of apparent federal agents conducting enforcement activity on church grounds or nearby. There were videos and photos.
In a statement Monday, McLaughlin said the court order “is based on a false narrative,” adding, “Let me be clear: (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) does NOT raid churches.” McLaughlin argued the ruling is an attempt to “demonize our brave ICE law enforcement,” who she said were facing an increase in assaults and death threats, and referenced a recent protest at a church in Minnesota by demonstrators who claimed a pastor there worked for ICE. (Several of the demonstrators and two journalists who covered the protest have since been arrested.)


However, an RNS analysis last August found at least 10 reports of apparent federal agents conducting immigration enforcement actions on or in the immediate vicinity of church property. At least one in June included video evidence: A pastor in California filmed apparent federal agents as they detained a man in her church parking lot, as the pastor insisted they leave the property. The following month, San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas lifted the obligation for Catholics in his diocese to attend Mass if are concerned aboutICE raids, citing what he said were recent instances of federal agents detaining parishioners at two churches in the region.

Photo of apparent federal agents in a church parking lot.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Care to guess which of these people Trump takes *spiritual guidance* from?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com
To: Bill Gates
Subject:
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:14:35 +0000
come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Twitter has pron bots. BlueSky has "help, my totally real family in Gaza is starving" bots.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." "it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Holy shit. Not only was Tulsi Gabbard present for the raid on Georgia's election center, she called Trump and put him on speaker phone to the FBI agents conducting the raid! (Gift link)
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Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 ICE had weeks to hide things.
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Eddie Current @cheatlines.co · 01/02/2026
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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Johnathan Lemay @fankuan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NEW: Enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest happening in Baltimore right now. Crowd stretching back over the horizon. (🎥 PSL Baltimore)
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 30/01/2026
Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Melania & Ghilaisne appear to have been on shorthand name basis— Melania: “G!” Ghislaine: “Sweet Pea”
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Why would the IC be investigating voting if they think foreign interference was a hoax?
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Indivisible - 5th District North Alabama @indivisible5al.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
☎️STATE LEVEL BILL☎️ OPPOSE HB162 and SB71-- These bills cede the authority granted by the Clean Water Act in 1972 that allowed Alabama to enact laws more protective of water quality than federal minimums.
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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
While everyone is focused on the DHS shutdown fight and deadly enforcement actions in Minneapolis, one powerful player keeps escaping attention: Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Britt chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, the committee that writes DHS’s budget. 🧵
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
There is no difference between classical liberalism and modern liberalism.
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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a person riding a horse down a dirt road in the desert
ALT: a person riding a horse down a dirt road in the desert
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You can't convince me this isn't the Bad Bunny everyone keeps talking about
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We know military bases and rare earths are red herrings. The only plausible explanation I can come up with is they want Greenland for their own hyper-CECOT. Isolated, no oversight, no foreign leaders to negotiate access with.
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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Lmao even
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NATO'S RUTTE: GREENLAND'S STATUS DID NOT COME UP IN TALKS WITH TRUMP – FOX NEWS

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Jan 21, 2026

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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you haven’t seen Peter Pan in a few decades, you won’t remember what a hyperbitch Tinkerbell is
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
PSA: If Bill Kristol can say this dems should be able to say it
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merkhet.bsky.social @merkhet.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I gave the Starfleet Academy pilot a chance despite it being in the pants-on-head timeline, but it is a parade of overwhelming stupidity.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/01/2026
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
US and NATO. As the Arctic becomes more strategically crucial, Russia has 57 modern icebreakers. The US has 2. The US is wholly dependent on the 44 more sophisticated icebreakers operated by our NATO allies.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.againstallenemies.net/p/greenland-...
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The War On Greenland
Why The Joint Chiefs Must Resign
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 13/01/2026
NEWS: Ranking Member @raskin.house.gov is demanding DOJ and DHS produce records on whether pardoned January 6 insurrectionists are now working for ICE and explain why masked ICE agents are hiding their identities while carrying out violent operations in American communities.
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House Democrats ask Trump administration if any Jan. 6 rioters are now working for ICE
Nearly one year after the mass pardon of more than 1,500 Trump-supporting Capitol riot defendants, House Democrats are asking whether any of the pardoned rioters are now working for ICE.
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