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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 11/06/2026
Go get this romance! 99p is *ridiculous* for the amount of enjoyment you will get out of it. Not least learning about pigments and paints in the Regency era, about men's fashion, and also you will get to see an abusive, narcissistic character nearly piss himself in fear - very cathartic! 😂
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026
i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
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The Wrath of Stephen Miller
The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy
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Tomas Antoncik @tomasantoncik.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
No words. 💔 #Justice4Renee
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Pete Buttigieg is absolutely correct. We must hold Noem accountable for what happens in her department.
Screenshot of a post on X by Brian Tyler Cohen (@brian…) quoting Pete Buttigieg. The quote says an ICE agent should have been trained not to stand in front of a vehicle or shoot into a moving vehicle, and claims this happened on Kristi Noem’s watch. It adds that the point of Homeland Security is to make the country more stable and safe, and argues the opposite has occurred under the administration. Below the text is a video thumbnail showing Pete Buttigieg speaking directly to camera indoors, seated in front of a framed picture and a lamp, with a 0:27 timestamp and a speaker icon.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Malignant narcissists should never hold high office.
Screenshot of a post on X by MeidasTouch (@MeidasTo…) reading: “This is so humiliating for everyone involved.” The post quotes Acyn (@Acyn), who transcribes a Fox News exchange: “Hannity: Do you have any plans to meet with Machado and would you accept the Nobel prize she wants to hand to you?” and “Trump: I understand she's coming in the next week sometime…..that would be a great honor.” Below is a Fox News video still showing Donald Trump seated across from Sean Hannity in an interview setting with a fireplace behind them. A banner reads “EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP” with “BREAKING NEWS,” and a “cc” closed-caption icon appears on the video.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
An ICE agent killed a Minneapolis mother and the Trump administration continues to mislead the public despite what videos clearly show. The House passed a three year extension of ACA premium subsidies after Republicans broke ranks. The Senate voted to rein in Trump’s war powers in Venezuela.
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ICE agent murders Renee Good. House passes Obamacare subsidies. Senate rebukes Trump over Venezuela.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
MAGA is fracturing.
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GOP Senator Savagely Rips 'Stupid' Stephen Miller Over Greenland In Blistering Floor Speech
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
They’re going to handle this the way they handled the Epstein files.
Screenshot of a post on X by Acyn (@Acyn) quoting “Garcia” saying: “Every American should be outraged by what happened in Minneapolis.” The quote adds that the lack of accountability and the DOJ investigating itself is “insane,” and says they can’t be trusted to investigate anything. Below the text is a video thumbnail showing a man in a dark suit and red tie standing outdoors near large stone steps and a government building, with streetlights and parked cars in the background. A watermark reads “MEIDASTOUCH NETWORK,” and a “cc” closed-caption icon appears in the corner.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Massie reminds the DOJ that laws will outlast regimes.
Screenshot of a post on X by Acyn (@Acyn) quoting Thomas Massie warning DOJ officials that they can be prosecuted by a future DOJ for violating the law, saying it is not a congressional subpoena that expires and “will last forever.” Below the text is a CNN split-screen video still showing a male anchor on the left and Massie on the right. A banner reads “EPSTEIN FALLOUT” and “LAWMAKERS ASK JUDGE TO APPOINT INDEPENDENT MONITOR TO ENSURE DOJ FULLY RELEASES EPSTEIN FILES,” with a red “LIVE” indicator and a “cc” icon.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.
Screenshot of a post on X by FactPost (@factpostnews) quoting a pastor describing an encounter with ICE agents. The text says he saw ICE agents circling a young Hispanic woman and told an agent to stop harassing her. He says the agent got in his face, pointed a gun at him, and asked if he was afraid. The pastor says he was then handcuffed, put in the back of an SUV, and told, “Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway.” Below the quote is a video still from MSNBC showing a middle-aged man with glasses speaking from a home office with bookshelves and rainbow-colored blankets on chairs behind him. A banner reads “BREAKING NEWS: MINNEAPOLIS PASTOR SAYS HE WAS DETAINED BY ICE,” with “Katy Tur Reports” and MSNBC branding.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...
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Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 18/01/2026
They’re trying to deport witnesses to a murder by ICE guards
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 20/12/2025
President Zelensky and Portuguese PM Luís Montenegro honored fallen Ukrainian soldiers by laying flowers at the Wall of Remembrance in Kyiv. Montenegro’s visit to Ukraine began on December 20 with this gesture.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
More Americans need to learn about the benefits of libraries, so help spread the word. 👉 Like 👉 Follow 👉 Share
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 20/12/2025
“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/12/2025
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Donate in 2025 and you’ll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Blanche also said 200 DOJ attorneys reviewed the files and redacted the documents after the Act was signed into law. But as I reported, based on docs I obtained via #FOIA, the FBI directed 934 agents & other personnel to review & redact the files earlier this year.
The review team consisted of more than 200 Department attorneys working to determine whether materials were responsive under the Act and. if`so, whether redactions or withholding was required. The review had multiple levels. First, 187 attorneys from the Department`s National Security Division (NSD) conducted a review of all items produced to JMD for responsiveness and any redactions under the Act. Second, a quality-control team of 25 attorneys conducted a second-level review to ensure that victim personally identifying information was properly redacted and that materials that should not be redacted were not marked for redaction, The second-level review team consisted of attorneys from the Department's Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (OPCL) and Office of Information Policy (OIP)--these attorneys are experts in privacy rights and reviewing large volumes of discovery. After the second-level review team completed its quality review, responsive materials were uploaded onto the website for public production as required under the Act. See Sec. 2(a). Finally, Assistant United States Attorneys from the Southern District of New York reviewed the responsive materials to confirm appropriate redactions so that the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York could certify that victim identifying information was appropriately protected.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
In WSJ, a detailed unraveling of how Putin came to pick Trump's negotiating team for Ukraine, kicking out Gen Kellogg and putting Steve Witkoff in his place. Astonishing detail here. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The Nazis did exactly this sort of thing.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"They’re counting on us to go quiet. They’re counting on the holidays. They’re counting on distraction. They’re counting on the news cycle flipping to something else. My sources say they believe they bought time—Congress goes dark ... Trump disappears into Mar-a-Lago, and everyone 'moves on.'”
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Data Set 3 is a bunch of naked young girls. Plus, a lot of naked photos that look a lot like Melania's naked photos.
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Data Set 3 Files
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Data Set 2 is an endless stream of Epstein and Maxwell vacation photos, with pedo Jean-Luc Brunel a constant companion.
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Data Set 2 Files
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
WaPo CTO Vineet Khosla: "Hey kids I see you like podcasts! What do you say to a podcast that's a lot like the podcasts you already love, only is sucks shit? Pretty cool, huh?" medium.com/@drmarcfrank...
I was intrigued by Washington Post C.T.O. Vineet Khosla’s take on the much-maligned rollout of the Post’s A.I. tools — which, as Semafor has reported, are furnishing readers and podcast listeners with inaccuracies and fabricated quotes. The conventional response here would be a hasty recall and mea culpa, but Khosla is standing firm and saying the company will “iterate through the remaining issues.”

In a recent interview with The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey, Khosla cast the media’s obsession with accuracy as an impediment to innovation. Whereas the tech instinct is to ship, observe, and iterate, the media instinct — or, really, the journalistic instinct — is to prevent error. “Getting something slightly wrong is not the end of the world [in tech],” Khosla said, “but getting something slightly wrong in the world of media is often perceived as the end of the world.” I can hear the J-school crowd hyperventilating here, but it’s worth noting that this reflexively risk-averse mindset is precisely why investors typically hate media — and why it often takes the industry so long to catch up to changes in consumer behavior.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/12/2025
"They were best friends," David Frum says of Trump and Epstein. "The only photos you ever see of Donald Trump where he is authentically smiling in the presence of another human being, is with Jeffrey Epstein."
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Trump's ego knows no bounds.
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JFK's Grandnephew Offers Blunt Reality Check After Kennedy Center Board Votes To Add Trump's Name
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
one of four in a week www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/12/2025
Yes, but it’s not a “nuclear option.” It’s the most basic, obvious, conventional option available if you want to actually do something effective. The fact that they’re not immediately promising it en masse tells us something, and that something is not good.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 20/12/2025
DOJ releases some Epstein files with heavy redactions, hundreds of thousands of files missing
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DOJ releases some Epstein files with heavy redactions, hundreds of thousands of files missing
On December 19, the Department of Justice released a batch of files relating to the late pedophile and friend of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein. However, the release of these files lacked transparency. 119 pages of a New York grand jury testimony was redacted; this grand jury testimony included some of the most sought-after information, according to […]
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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 20/12/2025
Ouch. Difficult to say "Our previous CEO was protecting a sexual predator" more explicitly than this. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
The decision to sever ties came after HarperCollins’ former chief executive, Charlie Redmayne, suddenly stepped down in October and was replaced on an interim basis by Kate Elton.

In a statement to the Guardian, a HarperCollins spokesperson said: “After careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, HarperCollins UK has decided not to publish any new titles by David Walliams.”
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20/12/2025
A yearlong campaign by the far-right Alternative for Germany party to court Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is beginning to bear fruit.
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Cozying Up to MAGA Pays Dividends for Germany’s Far-Right AfD
A yearlong campaign by the far-right Alternative for Germany party to court Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is beginning to bear fruit.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein...
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Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds
The Justice Department released thousands of new photos and records on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, but at least 550 pages in the documents are fully redacted.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This is Lithuania at the moment. They didn’t wait for permits to protest. They took to the streets. Something that should be happening in D.C. on a daily basis.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck a Russian patrol ship and Lukoil's Filanovsky drilling platform in the Caspian Sea, with the rig holding estimated reserves of 129 million tons of oil and 30 billion cubic meters of gas funding Russia's war, SOF reporte
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/12/2025
Some of the same conservatives who constructed an entire worldview around a fear that someday the federal government would create a panopticon to persecute them ended up building one to use against their enemies the minute they got the chance.
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Trump, Hunger Games, and the Kennedy Center
The dystopia everyone said was impossible is already here.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Vought is one of the top three or four enemies of the Constitution & American democracy. His removal from power is one of the highest priorities for any project of checking the dictatorship's lawless wielding of the vast powers of the state
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/12/2025
It really can't be said too many times that deporting the people who build homes is this administration's housing affordability policy.
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Trump Is Walloping Construction Businesses. The Industry Stays Quiet.
Raids on work sites. Roofers under siege. But builders keep mum.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We should all be aware that this is the same tactic they may use in the midterms: claim the results are fake, evidence doesn't matter, they decide what is and isn't real (a birth certificate or an election result) and then try to do what they want. We must anticipate this shit and plan accordingly.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law. /1
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Like, follow, share to help support libraries!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“Being complicit in criminal stuff and not standing up to bad people doing bad things carries possible risk of consequences for use of free will— Even if you were — say it with me — just following orders. News at 11.”
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Puka_bear 🌈🧙‍♀️🍉💙📚🌶🐈‍⬛️BLM🇺🇦4B @pukabear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
No human being is illegal on stolen land.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Musk played hide the bot farm. *I knew that conscious philosopher account was foreign.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Huh. I wonder which Canadian billionaire it will turn out to be.
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary insists ‘nobody gives a poop’ about Epstein
‘Maybe they were raped, maybe they weren’t. This is not what American families give a d*mn about,’ Kevin O’Leary exclaimed on Monday night.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Numerous House Dems have now filed reports with the Capitol Police on Trump's call for their execution, WaPo reports. Rep Chrissy Houlahan discussed the need for this on our pod yesterday: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Democrats seek police action on Trump’s ‘threatening’ social media posts
Lawmakers responded to Trump writing that they should be arrested and potentially punished by death for encouraging service members to disobey illegal orders.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
You don't know if they are growing that food for others, for a food bank, for a holiday meal. It's anti-community to assume you are entitled to the food someone is growing. CONSENT. Plus PDXers post on Buy Nothing and put signs in their yard to share. We are generous. Give us the chance to be so.
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A client's garden that I planted was posted on Insta by someone who felt they could take fruit w/o permission. He defended his choice and has apparently been sharing the location of the garden with others so they can also take fruit. The entitlement + lack of consent is concerning.
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Someone put my client's garden on Instagram. I'm not thrilled with what I saw
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/11/2025
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
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