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Bagels, Mickey Bagels

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Grouchy pensioner, somewhat opinionated, easily provoked, hoping for normal, eff Twitter

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
Due to a new GOP-backed law, Tennessee is revoking driver’s licenses for immigrant residents who have LEGAL STATUS to be in the U.S. People are just trying to get to work and provide for their families. GOP is sabotaging our economy b/c they want to torment immigrants. 🎥 @attorneymartinez
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 16h
The White House has asked Guilfoyle to resign, not because she was accepting bribes or trying to get some guy's $100,000 to pay for her AmEx card, but because she got caught and her Sugar Daddy acknowledged that bribery is the way to get the Trump Administration to act. abcnews.com/Politics/whi...
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White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign: White House press secretary
Guilfoyle announced that her time in her post is "coming to an end."
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 21h
Taxpayers covered nearly $22M in pro-Trump ads, $10M after his private-funding vow, while agents raided Ilhan Omar’s home at 4:30 a.m. over fraud claims she calls political. #OfficialNeutrality
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h
The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What a dolt.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Darline was only following orders...
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There won't be a second debate. Darline barely survived this one. (But now we know that her parents died 50-something years ago and Lindsey was her sainted brother.)
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 12/10/2026
A diesel deal between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump won’t be enough to ease the global fuel market
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Russia Can’t Export as Much Diesel as Trump Needs
Ukrainian strikes have curtailed refinery output, and repairs could take weeks even if an energy ceasefire materializes.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I have come to rely on your eloquence. This most decidedly, has *not* been sarcasm.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Four days before yesterday’s ICE shooting in the Bronx, Judge Gary Brown of EDNY (Trump apptee) listed 7 outrages in an ICE case before him, including evasive & apparently perjurious testimony, post-hoc sworn arrest warrant containing false info, woeful lack of training … 1/2
The evidence points to numerous failings on the part of both ICE and the officers
who testified, including:
1. evasive and apparently perjurious testimony by the ICE agents, including the
testimony concerning supposed observations of the petitioner engaging in drug
transactions, which bear all the hallmarks of coordinated fabrication,12 the absence of any recovered drugs, paraphernalia or cash from the petitioner,
the failure of the agents to follow up upon these supposed observations or refer
the matter to another law enforcement agency, and the notable absence of any
reference to these observations in the voluminous documentary records, further undermining the agents' testimony;
2. the seemingly reflexive, though false, claims that the petitioner was
"misidentified" as the target of the operation;
3. fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents authorities and duties;
4. illegality of the arrest and detention of petitioner and Concepcion;
5. the post-arrest documents, which not only were procedurally and legally
suspect, but contain false statements;Notably, in its filings, Government counsel has not referenced this testimony, seemingly abandoning any argument predicated upon these sworn assertions by the agents.

6. the database search process used to justify the administrative warrant, as
described by the ranking supervisory officer, which appears designed to generate misleading information in official records; and
7. the inexperience of the agents involved, their woeful lack of proper training, understanding of law, policies and procedures, and their ready recourse to false testimony to conceal these failings.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
His hair is looking good!
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time. n.pr/3TtIYiJ
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3 years on, Israelis grapple with reports Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7 attacks
On the three-year mark since the Hamas-led deadly attack, Israelis are grappling with reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly warned by regional allies ahead of time.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Three FBI interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting / raping her when she was 13–15, after Jeffrey Epstein introduced them, were missing from the DOJ’s initial Epstein files release. #OpDeathEaters
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*Another* new hairdo??
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Claude, how can Trump back down from his government-funded political ads in the most damaging way possible for the GOP?” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We've got to face the fact that a third of the country doesn't care if Trump is out of his mind as long as he's as racist and sexist as they are. But we also must recognize that the rest of the country deserves to live in a free country, not a dictatorship. Vote against all Republicans.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines
Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.
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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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Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How are Witkoff and Kushner's peace efforts going? “Peace is further away than it was a year ago,” said a source close to the Kremlin. “And the occasional trip by Witkoff and Kushner isn’t going to change that.” My latest. puck.news/what-does-th...
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Steve Witkoff’s Ninth Circle
As the war in Ukraine grows even more hellish, Witkoff has been locked in never-ending diplomatic purgatory with Putin’s apparatchiks—which is starting to drive the Russians crazy, too. “He is a very ...
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every time Trump is asked about people struggling to pay rent, buy a home, afford groceries, health care and gas and he responds claiming this is the greatest economy ever and people on Wall Street are making tons of money speculating on AI, Republicans go down another point in the polls.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Moldova President Sandu: “Russia’s war against Ukraine directly endangers the lives of our citizens.” She added that Moscow is “putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped.”Russian drones entered Moldovan airspace more than 45 times in 2026, including eight incidents in the past week.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Romania’s Defence Ministry says an object, suspected to be a drone, crashed near Plauru and sparked a fire during Russian drone attacks just across the border in Ukraine. Its origin remains under investigation, and Romanian radar recorded no unauthorised airspace entry, meaning detection failed.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys warned that Russia’s continuing war is increasing the risk of “provocations, incidents, and accidental or deliberate violations,” stressing that NATO is prepared to defend its territory.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Switzerland is preparing for the possibility of war with Russia. Its army chief warns that “Switzerland is a target for Moscow,” as the country prepares to repel an armed attack and fight alongside partner states if its territory comes under attack.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sweden is reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced Swedish Gripen deployments for NATO air-defence operations over Poland, saying Sweden and its allies are strengthening “the security of Sweden, Europe and NATO.”
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Germany is preparing for further Russian hybrid attacks, “including serious ones,” and vowed a rapid response. Germany is strengthening counter-sabotage and drone defences as its forces rehearse responses to hybrid attacks.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Poland is on heightened alert after repeated Russian missile and drone incursions into its airspace. Eastern communities are receiving warnings to seek shelter during Russian strikes on western Ukraine, while Polish aircraft are repeatedly being scrambled and border airports temporarily closed.
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"highly controversial"...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, no.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
for the second straight day, Trump -- face drooping -- is struggling to stay awake during a televised event
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Bagels, Mickey Bagels @mickeybagels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I give you today's winner of the internet.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not sure I've seen this level of GOP panic in my lifetime. The leaks have become a flood. Republicans are privately admitting this looks like 2006. They're saying the map is disintegrating. One even predicts a "wipelout." On the pod, we bring you all of it: newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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Trump Erupts in Wild Panic as GOP Midterm Leaks Grow Urgent: “Wipeout”
As GOP alarm about the midterms worsens, a progressive data researcher explains the deeper reasons voters are so angry and dissatisfied right now—especially in red states with big Senate races.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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