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MerTheLibrarian

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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/06/2026
🎥 NEW: The DOJ sued 31 states to seize your most sensitive voter data — but they're tallying at zero wins so far. Marc Elias breaks down why Trump's voter data obsession isn't just a PR stunt, but an effort to build a national voter list he can control to decide who gets to vote in 2026👇
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Trump's Voter Data Obsession is More Dangerous Than You Think
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/06/2026
the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I would really like for outlets to, after stating the government’s allegations, at least mention the fact that the car ran into us. An ICE agent drove into a crowd. Of people. Who were peacefully protesting. And then the government tried to paint us as a lawless mob.
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Bernie The Wordsmith @berniethewordsmith.eurosky.social · 12/05/2026
The incubation period is scary as f COVID was already bonkers because of that, and it wasn't even 40 days
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 10/05/2026
Scientists know how to track Vibrio outbreaks as warming oceans push the bacteria northward. Unfortunately, that work gets harder after deep cuts to NOAA, public science, and health infrastructure by people who apparently think “MAHA” and “DOGE” are substitutes for epidemiology and ocean monitoring.
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A deadly bacterium is creeping up the US east coast. How worried should we be?
Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio even as scientists are trying to stay one step ahead
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Project 2025 *explicitly* calls for the dismantling & privatization of NOAA, NWS, NSF, NASA, USPS, and a host of other Federal agencies. The GOP is realizing their wildest libertarian dreams of dismantling the New Deal & Great Society. The extremist GOP will NEVER stop this!
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
they’re calling it “Roberts redistricting,” and someone doesn’t like it
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/05/2026
"pro-life" Republicans did this.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/05/2026
Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts Through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes [Video] unicornriot.ninja/2026/enbridg...
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Enbridge’s Line 5 Reroute Blasts Through Bedrock Without Permits, Threatening the Great Lakes - UNICORN RIOT
Washburn, WI — Copper Falls State Park sits on some of Wisconsin’s most ancient bedrock. Enbridge wants to blast through it — and admits it isn’t sure exactly where to. The Line 5 reroute is blasting ...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/05/2026
The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“Sotomayor recounted some of Trump’s hateful public statements. ‘We have a President saying at one point that Haiti is a ‘filthy, dirty, and disgusting S-hole country.’ I’m quoting him,’ she said.”
Sotomayor recounted some of Trump’s hateful public statements. “We have a President saying at one point that Haiti is a ‘filthy, dirty, and disgusting S-hole country.’ I’m quoting him,” she said. Sotomayor also raised Trump’s complaints about the U.S. taking people from these countries instead of countries like Norway and Sweden where, she noted, the people are “all virtually white.” 

Sotomayor also brought up Trump’s characterization of “illegal immigrants” (which he conflates with TPS) as “poisoning the blood” of the nation. For her, the statements were a “prime example” showing that, under the Court’s precedents, an impermissible “discriminatory purpose” may have “played a part in this decision.” Jackson further pressed Sauer on the Trump administration’s policy of welcoming “white South Africans” into the country while “Black African immigrants are not allowed.” And she quoted some of the president’s more flagrant remarks about presumed biological inferiority. “What about ‘poisoning the blood of Americans?’” she asked. “What about ‘bad genes?’”
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
They are desperate to manufacture a narrative of outrage in order to swing the Chicago municipal elections next year. The drumbeat starts now; it's going to be getting louder over the next few months.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"This is the Court that can do it all -- judge, legislate, turn back time, erase facts, and rewrite history." -- @sifill.bsky.social Read in full, The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights Act ⬇️ sherrilyn.substack.com/p/scotus-dro...
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights Act
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Constitutional calvinball.
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FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love this essay very much!!!!
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/04/2026
The company’s right-wing politics and eagerness to facilitate U.S. and Israeli military aggression abroad, NSA global surveillance, and ICE deportations has also made many weary of its access to incredibly sensitive personal data.
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Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining
Military contractor Palantir has been paid more than $130 million by the IRS to analyze sensitive federal databases.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization, Analysis Finds
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Really dislike that my whole state is being extorted by a sports team worth billions. If they wanna go, let them.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 21/04/2026
The Working Families Party wants Democrats to embrace a federal jobs program that would counter job losses tied to the rise of AI. www.notus.org/2026-electio...
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The Working Families Party Wants Democrats to Embrace a Jobs Program to Counter AI
The progressive group’s new policy platform, shared first with NOTUS, marks another turn in the struggle between the left and center of the Democratic Party.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Absolute must read from Steve Vladeck: www.stevevladeck.com/p/a9227283-8...
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One First
A weekly newsletter aiming to make the Supreme Court’s rulings, procedures, and history more accessible to all. Click to read One First, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscriber...
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 23/04/2026
The BBC has put together some incredible time stamps involving trading & Trump's public statements. Once might be an anomaly. Twice could be a coincidence. 3 times? That's a pattern. And we are being robbed in the process.
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
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MerTheLibrarian @merthelibrarian.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
According to theorist Bonnie Honig, minor conflicts over shared resources are key to the health of democracy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
While we are transfixed by the antics of our supposed "leaders", a catastrophe of astonishing proportions has been creeping up on us. Climate scientists now believe it is more likely than not to happen, and soon. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23/04/2026
The final boss has emerged www.ft.com/content/693d...
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Private equity courts OpenAI and Anthropic
The start-ups are in talks with private equity firms over joint ventures intended to help deploy AI in businesses
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"The firm provided a ledger of the errors, which spanned three pages and totaled around three dozen. A number of them involved the citation of seemingly imagined passages from real cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/n...
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A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
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BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity
Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis
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Mad Houser/AltHUD @madhouser.altgov.info · 21/04/2026
A group of current and former HUD employees in Fair Housing started this amazing project. Altgov began with a similar mission to educate the public about what’s truly happening to the fabric of our country. Here are additional voices from inside our broken system. dearamericaletters.org
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Dear America
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/2092...
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Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?
Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
More data and details: popular.info/p/the-media-...
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The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal
As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/04/2026
People see stories like this and are like AHA, so Signal isn't secure! But actually, this access was the result of message notifications/previews, and this @404media.co piece points you in the direction of addressing those settings to make Signal more secure!
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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/04/2026
this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built
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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 04/04/2026
Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”
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MerTheLibrarian @merthelibrarian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Movement Call: National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Why a surprise inspection? Because the last time they inspected this facility they had to give 7 days notice; and ICE moved almost everyone out of the facility before they got there, then filled it up again when they left. azmirror.com/2026/04/09/i...
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ICE moved detainees out of an overcrowded Mesa facility before congressional oversight visit
A Mesa ICE facility built for 157 people held nearly 800 in a single day, with some detainees staying up to 18 days
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/04/2026
AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.
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Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of service | TechCrunch
AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:
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Russell Vought - Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their…
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As AI PACs flood primary elections, Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic leadership are quietly bending the knee to the industry.
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Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
STOP TRYING TO REHABILITATE RAHM.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Justice Sam Alito, who owns stock in several oil and gas companies, did not recuse himself from the decision to grant a petition from oil giants Suncor and Exxon.
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Sam Alito’s Latest Reversal at the Supreme Court Is an Absolute Embarrassment
Alito offered no justification for his reversal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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