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A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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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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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I desperately need someone to make tradcath style “in hoc signo vinces” art but swap in Pope Leo for Constantine, White Sox players for soldiers, and the the SOX logo for the chi rho

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

from estamosunidosnj: On 9/23, ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct and he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, agents posed as police to try and gain access inside. Throughout this, Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them demonstrating clear collaboration. #ICEoutofNJ

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.

Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.

Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/09/2026

Anyway, here’s a section that will cut you to your core. Odds are 1-2% of the local Latino population has been deported & one community member thinks 25% have left.

“We lost a lot of our community,” said Rudy Trujillo, owner of accounting firm Trujillo Service at 420 E. Lake St., whose clients are mostly Latino immigrants.
He estimates that one in four Latinos left the Twin Cities, either by self-deportation or moving to another state.
No hard data is yet available. About 235,000 Hispanic people lived in the seven-county metro area in 2024, according to census data. The 5,000th detainee (most detainees were of Latin-American descent) was flown out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in August, Minnesota Reformer reports.

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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Breaking: Anthropic says its A.i. lasered five of its employees to death. It won't say who, citing privacy concerns, and there are no police reports, but their A.i. is super-advanced and would totally do that, and their word is enough for us, the tech press, that it happened."

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Biked to the Bayonne Bridge and back yesterday. Before leaving JC, I saw 2 drivers run red lights (one flagrantly) and another cut me off with an unsignaled turn

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OB Chargn @obchargn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A public health professor is walking through a PARKING LOT and has an epiphany that society doesn’t allow for physical exercise anymore. She decides it must be due to the rise of e-bikes: www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Americans are socializing less across the board, but especially on Friday nights. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This study examines how Americans’ time with friends has changed over the week, focusing not on how much social interaction has declined but on when it has. Using American Time Use Survey data from 2003 to 2024 (N = 243,095), I map hourly patterns of “friend time” across the days of the week. In the early 2000s, social life followed a clear weekly rhythm: Modest weekday interaction built toward pronounced peaks on Friday and Saturday nights. Since the mid-2010s, that rhythm has collapsed. Friday night, once a central site of social activity, now looks like a typical weeknight. Saturday remains elevated but less so than before. Overall, time with friends has fallen by more than half. The mix of social activities, however, has remained stable. Americans have not replaced one form of interaction with another; they have reduced social interaction across the board. These findings point to a temporal reorganization of social life marked by the disappearance of the “night out.”

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good to know! I would love to hear more about how locals store these things too since I currently haul my Surly up and down a flight of stairs

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I saw a Bunch bike in the wild in JC today and yeah, I want one

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is such an important point about speed cameras. We have overwhelming data that the vast majority of drivers quickly learn where they are and adjust their driving habits to avoid getting ticketed. This makes them a bad way to generate ticket revenue but a super effective way to reduce speeding

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When I do this, I leave it unbuckled/unzipped so it’s obvious it’s empty. I imagine most pannier thieves are hoping for something valuable inside, not the bag itself.

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DanaMPatton @danampatton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🧊 is so bad out there. There's been a bunch of abductions in Jersey City already today. Please look out for your neighbors. Anywhere in New Jersey you can call the DIRE hotline and they will be able to get sighting info to ppl who can help. 888-347-3767 Please call if you see anything.

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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Do not use Minneapolis organizers as the peaceful good example so you can smear the Prairieland defendants for their “violent” tactics. Alex Pretti was also armed. The MN 15 are being indicted for related tactics and strategy. So much is wrong with this piece, but that especially sticks in my craw.

Screenshot of text: The Prairieland activists decided to meet the administration on the field the administration picked and deliver them the fight the administration wanted. By contrast the ordinary citizens of Minneapolis, and their resolute nonviolence, even in the face of brutal murders committed by agents of the state, have done far more to change national opinion on the mass deportation machine. They chose not to give the administration the fight it wanted. They met physical force with soul force, as Dr. King put it. Forget about the morality. The tactic was effective.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

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Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps

Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

On the same day she posted this, the LA Metro board (including Bass) awarded $100 million to freeway widening projects.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The people who feel upset by the idea that white-collar workers are working class are white-collar workers who feel status anxiety about being in the same bucket as the guy who cleans their office and the petit bourgeois owners who want the stolen valor of being "working class" because no college.

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Clear air is on the way! Or FIFA rigged the AQI.

AirNow AQI forecast for Jersey City showing that the air quality will gradually improve the next few days. Sunday, the day of the World Cup final is forecast as moderate.

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

A statement from WIRED leadership.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Montreal came up in conversation today and I said it's great cause it;s like if a bunch of French Hicks tried to create NYC from first prinicpals as opposed to Toronto which is like what if Chicago didn't have alcoholics

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i didn't realize that they could also murder you if they "fear for public safety"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.

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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also, this garish billboard truck was parked (illegally) in front of city hall. I’m not losing sleep over the tax bill for whoever paid for this monstrosity.

An LED billboard truck parked on Grove St in front of JC city hall. There are white diagonal lines clearly indicating that the space is not actually legal for parking. Also, the front axle of the truck is well past the stop bar, and the front bumper is blocking part of the crosswalk.

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I had to leave before it ended. I appreciate my council member @eleanalittle.bsky.social holding the meeting and also her willingness to cut JC’s public safety budget as part of the solution to the crisis

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The question and answer is tense but still calmer than I expected. People are asking good-faith questions about alternative revenue sources.

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

$110 million is a one-time gap in the budget while $90 million is a structural, recurring gap

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There’s maybe a couple dozen people here at the Jersey Ward E meeting about the proposed property tax increase

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

there are plenty of issues with Platner, but education as a proxy for class is an increasingly meaningless measure of actual class sentiment when 3 in 4 people in the generation making up the plurality of the workforce has at least some college education

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lilastromech (Mischa) @mischajaye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The cooling system was installed by the village AC technician, Thermodynamix 😊

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It’s really impressive how Paris has cleaned up its waterways enough to make them swimmable. Can we talk about that rather than keep litigating air conditioning? (Air conditioning is good)

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Commute de Paris @commutedeparis.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Si le plan autoroutier pour Paris imaginé dans les années 60 avait été mis en œuvre, il y aurait aujourd’hui à cet endroit précis une autoroute dans la tranchée du canal et un échangeur la reliant à la rocade souterraine St-Lazare Gare de l’Est. Une idée du progrès. Canal Saint-Martin, 21 juin

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Haiti getting blown out vs. Qatar getting blown out

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I have renewed faith in my coworkers after the most common workspace chat emoji reaction to the SpaceX Cursor news was sad Mr Incredible

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The authors are correct that this more mundane stratum of the upper classes deserves more attention, but I would highlight their influence on state and local politics.

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Mike @mikefleche.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I heard about this book Everywhere Millionaire from Tooze’s newsletter and assumed it would be critical of this class. Instead it “celebrates” them lol everywheremillionaire.com

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The Everywhere Millionaire | Owen Zidar & Eric Zwick

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