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🇵🇸 | Uchinanchu living on occupied, unceded Sawamish | T’Peeksin shores she/her

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney. www.military.com/air-force-ma...
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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WSJ reports that Ken Paxton celebrated NYE 2025 in Dubai with two U.S. fugitives; they’d been indicted on healthcare fraud and failed to return to the country. One had donated tens of thousands to Paxton. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the dems are benefitting in a two party system from the other party publicly lighting itself on fire. if the trump gop was half as competent as the bush-era gop the republicans would be sailing to victory in these midterms.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.
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KanMar @mkane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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treekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
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Michigan nurse charged with helping immigrant flee ICE custody
A Michigan nurse was charged with helping a Mexican national escape from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the hospital ​where she worked, court documents unsealed on Tuesday showed.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: Record High 47 Senators Vote To Hold Israel Accountable For Human Rights Violations
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KanMar @mkane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Guatemalan man dies in crash during attempted ICE traffic stop
Police in Michigan are investigating what led to the crash that killed Mario David Coronado Juárez, who was not the person ICE officers were originally looking to arrest, DHS says.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an individual did this, we'd treat it as a crime. We should treat this as a crime too, and hold OpenAI liable for what its models, under its supervision, did. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says
Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Today at 12:30, Wilber called his wife to tell her that he had been shot,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said in an earlier interview late Sunday. “And he was yelling in agony, and the call cut off. That was all she knew.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
theguardian.com
US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Ann Owens @annowens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sitting with this story by Nikole Hannah-Jones www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... Our Segregation Tracking Project data illuminate stubborn segregation in NYC schools (and many other places) and show how schools don't look like their n'hoods as White parents opt out edopportunity.org/segregation/...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So frustrating. Here's WA GOP leader Jim Walsh claiming mail-in voting doesn't work because the USPS isn't postmarking mail fast enough. And WHY IS THAT, Jim? Because the Trump administration CHANGED how the USPS postmarks mail in ways that delay that date.
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Jim Walsh commenting on a reposted tweet from the Lynnwood Times. The Lynnwood Times post includes a photo of three people at a press conference podium, with two women flanking a man speaking at a lectern bearing a "United States" seal, in front of American and Washington State flags.

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Jim Walsh's post (top):

Jim Walsh · Follow
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There was a sharp rise in the number of disqualified ballots in the recent WA primary election.
Mostly because they were postmarked late.
This is part of the reason that voter turnout was so low.
It's also a major flaw in WA's mailing voting system.
Simply absurd to call this system "100% accurate." It's not.
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Lynnwood Times ✅
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WA Sec State Steve Hobbs and Sen. Maria Cantwell discussing how increases in Late Postmarking disenfranchise WA Voters, particularly heavy Republican rural counties.

🎬 Presser on September 2, 2026.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here's a graphic illustrating their "rigged election" strategy:
A circular flow diagram on a blue background titled "Rigged Election" Strategy (in the center, in pink text). Six white text boxes are arranged in a ring, connected by light-blue curved arrows pointing clockwise, indicating a repeating cycle. Reading clockwise from the top, the six steps are:

Repeatedly say elections are "rigged"
Change laws to make it harder to vote
Muddy the waters: confuse voters & suppress votes
Seed & amplify rumors that echo "rigged election" refrain
Contest results (you don't like)
Sow distrust in democracy

The arrows loop back from "Sow distrust in democracy" to "Repeatedly say elections are 'rigged,'" showing the cycle as self-reinforcing.

Center text: "Rigged Election" Strategy
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I want a world where people are savvy enough not to think that police will arrest or reprimand ICE but where folks understand they are the same. I don’t want to dunk on people who don’t get it, I don’t want to snarkily comment that reports like this aren’t surprising, I just want people to get it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(They mean they will be treated like poor and brown people. That’s the extinction level event they name but cannot describe…and why they won’t describe it. In case that got lost in the jokes.)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"A recent report by the Government Accountability Office found that FDA averaged only 917 foreign food-facility inspections annually from fiscal years 2018 through 2023 — less than 5 percent of the statutory target established under the Food Safety Modernization Act."
foodsafetynews.com
Patient count for parasite outbreak linked to lettuce tops 10,000
The sick people are spread across 17 states
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
for-profit prisons are top 3 most evil things we do in this country and its exciting to see a dem senate candidate take this on. fuck geo group forever
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/08/2026
Thread 🧵 One year ago, Anas al-Sharif was killed while reporting from Gaza. Hundreds of Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed since October 2023. One year on, questions over Anas’s killing and accountability remain. #Infograph
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
And technofeudalism is very very good at that. And we are very very bad at prioritizing our needs over satiating our emotions.
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Joaquin Sapien @jbsapien.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A few weeks ago, after two years of work, I published a story unlike any I’d encountered in my 18 years at ProPublica. I’ve been off social media for a while, but I felt compelled to share some of my reporting journey here. 🧵
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/07/2026
Good Shepherd Collective has compiled a thread documenting the sharp escalation in Israeli settler & military violence across the occupied West Bank over the past day. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded & property damaged in “revenge” attacks after Israeli officials & settlers called for... ⬇️
Good Shepherd Collective has compiled a thread documenting the sharp escalation in Israeli settler and military violence across the occupied West Bank over the past day. Dozens of Palestinians were wounded and property damaged in “revenge” attacks after Israeli officials and settlers called for retaliation. ⬇️Good Shepherd Collective
@Shepherds4Good
As a matter of policy, settlers use the consequences of their violence to enact further violence. After 2 settler soldiers were killed invading Tell, settlers and their leadership called for “revenge” through the destruction of Tell and the establishment of more settlements.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 25/07/2026
🎥 Daughter of a Palestinian man killed in Nablus by Israeli settlers and soldiers yesterday breaks dow as she mourns her father’s death. Video: Good Shepherd Collective via X (@Shepherds4Good)
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 25/07/2026
Christ Congress really has no power left
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/07/2026
A superintendent misspent public funds in Ohio for years. Indicted on multiple felony counts of theft, she permanently lost her educator license in the state. Then she moved to Florida, changed her name and opened a private school.
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Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders -- sometimes with criminal histories -- often don't matter
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KanMar @mkane.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 ICE reportedly just shot and killed someone *again* — this time in Maine. If you have any info, please text me on Signal premthakker.35
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026
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21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Here’s hoping future Americans remember Lindsey Graham as a prophet.
Lindsey Graham V @LindseyGrahamSC
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed......and we will deserve it.
2:03 PM • 5/3/16 from Earth
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Speak ill of the dead.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/07/2026
A few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there. Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.
An FR24 map showing N588AT landing in EswatiniAn FR L24 map showing N588TN landing in Eswatini.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.
newrepublic.com
Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/07/2026
it is wild to me that people talked about this guy — who is in his 40s — as if he were a wayward youth and not a fully adult man.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2026
Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Surely, those who breathlessly covered Joe Biden’s cognitive decline will be all over this, right? RIGHT???
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
More than any other global event, the World Cup channels postcolonial legacies and the entangled nature of global modernities, from the countries competing and the commentary about specific teams and matchups, to the makeup of individual squads. I find it poignant, enraging and hopeful all at once.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
can’t imagine secret service would react so passively if the people disobeying their orders weren’t predominately white.
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KanMar @mkane.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This video is so amazing
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