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MikahMiriam

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I used to be a lawyer in real life.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 8m
Americans are getting swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. Over 500 U.S. citizens that we know of. Even more that we don’t. ICE’s lawlessness spares no one.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 13h
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11h
Wonder if Gov. Landry's tour included a mention that Hut 8 is a major business parter of Don Jr. and Eric's American Bitcoin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Governor Jeff Landry
@LAGovJeffLandry
Just got a tour of the Hut 8 site out in West Feliciana Parish. This means more jobs and more prosperity for our State.

I’ll be joining @FoxBusiness
 at 2:20pm to discuss! Tune in!
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h
Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 20h
Crying laughing at this
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
TAPPER: 'Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America.' Is that the right way to speak about someone you disagree with? RICK SCOTT: The point is Ds have all become socialists. They're antisemitic T: You think Wasserman Schultz is antisemitic? S: I can tell you Mamdani is. Hasan Piker ...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fox News' Karl Rove has not appeared on his network’s weekday programming for the last three weeks, an absence that coincides with his newsmaking public statements warning about extremism within the Republican Party — and his denunciation by Donald Trump. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/why...
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Why has Fox News benched Karl Rove?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It surprised me that the NYT story, which has five bylines, does not mention that Walters’ company, Salus Worldwide, has lost its $915M self-deportation contract. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/dhs-taps-r...
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DHS Taps ResponseAI, an ICE Skip-Tracing Contractor, to Run Self-Deportation Contract
The company, whose growing ICE portfolio includes locating people for deportation, will now run DHS’s contract for people leaving through the CBP Home app.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Joel Cunningham @joelevard.com · 05/10/2026
The Internet was amazing up until roughly 2009. The rapidly accelerating decline began with Facebook
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
just monstrous.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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MikahMiriam @mikahmiriam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💯 to all of this
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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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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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) Alito revealing this now is an attempt to rally Republicans in Trump states where Dems lead for Senate. 2) He’s the most partisan R on the court—highly likely he steps down in the lame duck if Dems take the Senate. 3) Doing number 2) makes court expansion even more likely if Dems win in 2028
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is fucking beastly. Collins is from Alabama.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So he did exactly what we thought he did -- instructing his aides to use taxpayer dollars to fund his propaganda ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 03/10/2026
Under Republican control, the House has only been in session for 72 days this year. Literally just 26% of the calendar year. It is absurd.
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Universities keep rewarding the architects of the demise of our democracy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This part
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The funny thing is that Congress has the power under Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and so, could tell the White House/DHS to go kick rocks, by including a requirement to hold naturalizations every day.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Susan Collins must be defeated. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The playoff games at Dodger Stadium this weekend will take place on the surface of the Sun.
Echo Park
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JD possesses a supernatural talent for finding the exact worst possible combination of words in the English language.😐
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026
I’d seen several posts like this trying to explain the strange boxy bustle that sometimes appears under Trump’s jacket, and I was skeptical (largely because I didn’t think he would be coordinated enough to use it or circumspect enough to keep quiet about it) but then I saw this.
Trump standing in the Rose Garden wearing very obvious leg braces under his trousers
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sen Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on jobs report: “Trump’s economy has only added 33,000 jobs a month on average, far below the 120,000-a-month average in 2024. At the same time, paychecks are growing at their slowest rate in nearly 7 years”
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Itgetzbybuckner @itgetzbybuckner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey now, Newt Gingrich is on this, so you know this is legit. Newt is nothing if not on top of technology and military activity, given his credentials of....... Nothing. No expertise. No military experience. No technology acumen whatsoever. He is a fraud though This is fine.....
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found. youtube.com/watch?v=qJcw...
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Kushner’s company has big stake in firm with ties to Israeli military
YouTube video by CNN
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The hell is going on with his legs?
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Low T JD”
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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MikahMiriam @mikahmiriam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it mind boggling though
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026
we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We can impeach Hegseth on November, if the House has the courage not to table the motion.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, this might be important.
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