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Robyn

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Grass-roots activism, Gaza, gardening, farming, travel, G'town (in Philly), prisons wherever, civil rights abuses, hunger. Want good regional garden posters. Sorry, but I don't give $ to individuals, my neighborhood has both hungry and homeless people to

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 28/09/2026
US deportations 'triggering cascade' of rights abuses, say UN experts
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US deportations 'triggering cascade' of rights abuses, say UN experts
Since US President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, Washington has been signing deals with developing countries to take migrants who cannot legally be sent home.
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TrumpWatch @trumpwatch.skyfleet.blue · 28/09/2026
Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation #Trump
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
🇬🇧"You were right," UK Foreign Sec. Ed Miliband told people outraged by the plight of Palestinians, in his 1st speech in the role at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Mon. Calling the suffering "a stain on the conscience of the world," Miliband said Labour had "reset" its approach under...
🇬🇧 "You were right," UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told people outraged by the plight of Palestinians, in his first speech in the role at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday.

Calling the suffering "a stain on the conscience of the world," Miliband said Labour had "reset" its approach under new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who replaced Keir Starmer. "We call out ethnic cleansing by the settler terrorists in the West Bank. We call out the evidence of war crimes in Gaza," he said, pledging to ban imports from illegal settlements and cut off British finance and services to them.

Critics say the rhetoric has outpaced action. The government has not suspended or revoked a single additional arms export licence for Israel since Miliband announced new restrictions on September 8, according to Declassified UK. Around 150 people were arrested outside the conference for holding placards reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action," which the government has proscribed as a “terrorist” group.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amid all the coverage of it, this Washinging Post column does the best — for me — in explaining why the Pool fights matter. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social See the original: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Update on Pedro Mendoza Chávez: While he was in the hospital, ICE refused to let his wife see or speak to him, and an officer told her he had fallen. Pedro, 63, says agents kicked him to the ground. Instead of being in a hospital, he's at an ICE detention facility in Taylor, Texas.
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miramar, Florida Concentration camp has footage that leaked out from inside, by a whistle blower. This is inhumane, disgusting, and heartbreaking.🤢🤬 youtube.com/shorts/wcqyU...
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Maddow on WHISTLEBLOWER images from inside ICE 'prison camp'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 28/09/2026
Just flagging that the two Trump admin staffers now running Oval Office operations who were allegedly involved in mishandling classified documents last term also got $20k and $45k in cash gifts from Trump last year.
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Oval Office operations run by alleged Trump classified documents co-conspirator - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Trump loyalists Walt Nauta and Chamberlain Harris were implicated in mishandling classified records. They're running White House operations.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How scared are Missouri Republicans about their anti-abortion amendment not passing in November? They are running commercials that don’t even mention the amendment will ban abortion… because they know we already gave women the constitutional right to abortion. VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 3.  
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICE is torturing this man. This is an emergency.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are so many things dangerously broken with our system, revealed in just this one scoop.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a kind of a thing that happens when you put a fourth-tier podcaster in charge of the FBI.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 28/09/2026
🔴 The Portland Press-Herald is out with a scathing editorial blasting Susan Collins for her flailing response to ProPublica’s bribery investigation: “It is extremely disappointing to watch Collins and members of her staff move to immediately discredit a thorough and fair piece of... Read ⬇️
🔴 The Portland Press-Herald is out with a scathing editorial blasting Susan Collins for her flailing response to ProPublica’s bribery investigation: “It is extremely disappointing to watch Collins and members of her staff move to immediately discredit a thorough and fair piece of investigative journalism on political and personal grounds.” The headline is harsh: “It’s Maine’s turn to be concerned about Susan Collins.”

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s not just a court order to restore press passes that the Trump regime is ignoring or trying to circumvent. It’s also playing games with people’s lives after being ordered to stop. Story: buff.ly/CaF8ojx
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fucking ridiculous headline. How about the people dragged off the street?!
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ICE operations are making it hard for vulnerable Republicans fighting for their political survival
Immigration enforcement in Kansas, Texas, Florida and beyond is forcing battleground Republicans to answer for the fallout.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Experienced FBI counterterrorism experts were punished for refusing to investigate something that, at most, warranted the attention of the DC Metro police.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
America is full of ppl who have to learn every damn thing the hard way: "Instead of learning from the 200+yr struggle to free women from male ownership, I'll try relinquishing my legal & economic autonomy--how bad can it be?" Reinventing feminism from 1st principles, one destroyed life at a time.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every single claim by DHS of non-citizen voting in Nevada, each and every 16K of them, was wrong. Story: buff.ly/zdQ2c5e
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New: The Trump administration has spent more than $1M in public funds so far to boost the president on the airwaves. Experts including a Bush WH ethics lawyer said it likely violates federal laws against propaganda & political activity by gov’t staff. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by The Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This: "According to the sources, Netanyahu asked the Emirati president to deny reports of their phone conversation and any details concerning the events of October 7 that could embarrass him."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AI is a colonialist project, which is why many of its leaders are literally trying to colonize Earth & outer space. Hallmarks of colonialism: * getting rich via expropriation (theft as below) * exploitation (cf: participation in AI bros' simulated-rape galas as a condition of career advancement)
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No wonder he’s mad at Politico’s reporting. It exposes what he’s up to, as the press ought to. Story: buff.ly/KTQvAPm
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
India's Cockroach Party denounces crumbling schools: 'Children are treated worse than animals'
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India's Cockroach Party denounces crumbling schools: 'Children are treated worse than animals'
Founded just a few months ago, the Cockroach Janta Party, a Gen Z-led movement, has visited several schools and conducted an audit to expose the extent of their dilapidation and unsanitary conditions. Authorities have tried everything in their power to prevent the group from carrying out these inspections.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Perhaps farmers and ranchers are finally growing wise to the con.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As I was saying about the president's mental health bit.ly/4AzAQOb
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Trump reveals constant violent thoughts in call with Axios: ‘I'm always thinking about it’
President Donald Trump made a startling admission to Axios on Sunday when pressed on whether he intended to escalate his deeply unpopular war against Iran in the near future.Trump’s phone call with th...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So many rape cultures.... Here's another!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law" A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it's too late. @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo:
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Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law
A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am honored to share our third Chaos Section #Poetry Project #chapbook, which focuses on #ICE brutality. Thank you to the authors, who contributed powerful #writing. And a huge thank you once again to Heather Cox-Richardson for sharing the call for submissions. #booksky @hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FBI fires two stars: “Both Burgwald, a West Point graduate, and Rae have served in high-profile posts in which they received attorney general’s awards over the past two decades. Rae supervised the FBI’s response to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.” news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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FBI Ousts Officials Probing Threats to Stephen Miller’s Family
FBI leadership removed two counterterrorism leaders due to dissatisfaction with their investigation of allegedly threatening phone calls made to senior White House aide Stephen Miller’s wife, said thr...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 28/09/2026
John Authers writes that bonds represent a more valid alternative to stocks than they’ve done in a generation - and investors will have to scrutinize the rosy projections for Su0026P earnings very carefully
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The Bond Rout Has a Silver Lining
Ten-year US Treasuries haven’t been so attractive in ages.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 26/09/2026
EU announces €710 million in aid for crisis-hit communities, mainly in Africa
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EU announces €710 million in aid for crisis-hit communities, mainly in Africa
The package, more than half of which is earmarked for sub-Saharan Africa, will also support people affected by conflicts and disasters in Palestine, Lebanon and Ukraine, as well as efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s always been a huge grift.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They can’t escape the circus the chief clown leads.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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