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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Huge fan of these two
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I read this NYT-organized focus group of “swing voters” in Texas, and I have to say they are dumbest motherfuckers on earth.
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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 23/09/2026
Around 200 parents, trans people, advocates, and allies gathered outside NYU Langone to condemn the hospital’s decision to end gender-affirming care for trans youth and pay $8.5 million following its agreement with the Trump administration’s Department of Justice.
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Funny read. He’s either a bona fide nitwit, or is dimly aware that his audience is primed to hate many of the heavy-handed things the TX GOP is pushing.
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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once again, I'm pleading with Texas media to stop promoting new Blue Bell flavors as some cute, nostalgic news story: they're a terrible company run by corporate criminals who make a shoddy, overhyped product. HEB Creamy Creations is a better product every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
expressnews.com
EEOC sues Blue Bell, says worker fired for religious reasons
A Jewish body shop technician was fired “less than a month after he refused to shave his beard due to his religious beliefs,” the EEOC says.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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hermanos. @iamdavidbrothers.com · 19/09/2026
the story Hank Kennedy talks about in this piece on Shelfdust is in the new Sgt Rock by Joe Kubert Deluxe Edition DC put out which has—you're gonna love this—matte paper!!!! Read the essay, buy the book, read the essay again. This is my foolproof method to getting better at comics.
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued state's the attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the ‌procedure is unconstitutional.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have save...
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
-HI: Big Island is a raging inferno of COVlD w/levels seemingly unimaginable. -TX: On par w/the all-time largest national wave, BA.1 Omicron -CA: Many places at 1/2 an Omicron -NY: Suffolk is Very High (2/2)
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 10/09/2026
I had a really fun essay about Camp Miasma and queer film planned out for this week's issue of the Big & Bright newsletter but now I have to write about the Dems fucking over trans people, again, instead. Thanks James and Gina 🖕
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/09/2026
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...
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Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones,…
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In today's CDC data, levels in Texas have continued to increase. pmc19.com/interactive....
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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is such terrible coverage. It takes all the completely BS justifications at face value w/o offering any rebuttal from anyone and just portrays it all as a normal, reasonable change being made by bureaucrats. This isn't so much journalism as PR for fascism.
statesman.com
UT proposes cutting more than 100 'narrow' courses from core this spring
UT courses on slavery, race, sexuality and environmental history are among those that could stop counting toward UT's core.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 02/09/2026
Out today: Beatings, starvation, even death ... harrowing reports emerge from Camp East Montana. In one lawsuit, current and former detainees said conditions inside are “in some respects even more punitive than prison,” even though immigrant detention is civil rather than criminal.
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 30/08/2026
In the first half of this year, boards of trustees voted to shutter more than 50 schools. The reasons for this are numerous but what’s impossible to miss is the growing presence of shamelessly excessive wealth alongside austerity. @gusbova.bsky.social on the state of things in Texas:
texasobserver.org
Editor's Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2026 Issue
A note from the editor-in-chief
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/08/2026
Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may already be beyond saving. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/gaza...
mondoweiss.net
Gaza isn’t able to recover from famine as acute malnutrition soars across the Strip, new report finds
Israeli restrictions on food entry are stalling recovery from famine in Gaza as malnutrition cases climb, an IPC report finds. Two-year-old Hashem Abu Mustafa, born hungry in a Rafah tent, may…
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nurses are mobilizing in Austin today to stand up to Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale. Palantir tech powers ICE and CBP raids that have detained more than 6,000 children. That same technology manages more than one-fifth of U.S. hospital beds. We will not remain silent!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great reporting here, and lots more to come, from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: www.texasobserver.org/ice-surge-da...
texasobserver.org
'Living like Vampires': ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas
"It's gotten that bad: People don't want to register their children to school. They don't want to do groceries. They don't even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee."
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100 Gecquas @homoagogo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA HOLY FUCK SEE THIS MOVIE
The movie poster for TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There was a nice long lull but it’s back
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nurses, patients and community allies are mobilizing on Thursday, August 27th in eight cities across the US to demand hospitals, elected officials, and our government immediately cut ties with tech giant Palantir. @texasaflcio.org & @nationalnurses.bsky.social 🫡 texasaflcio.org/events/austi...
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Austin: NNU's Palantir Out Day of Action
Nurses, patients, and community allies are mobilizing on Thursday, August 27th in eight cities across the United States to demand hospitals, elected officials, and our government immediately cut ties ...
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Does bro want Battleship Potemkin? Because this is how you get Battleship Potemkin.
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Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I don't think non-Texans quite grasp how howling mad this will make Texans. Big Bend is a pivotal part of the state's identity.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Anti-ICE sticker seen in Tempe, Arizona. 📸 RadicalGraffiti
ARE YOU A MISERABLE, UNFUCKABLE PIECE OF DUG SHIT?
JOIN ICE!
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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Your Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”
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🦋🧿Tempestori 🌬🌊 @tempestori.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Someone brought a guillotine to a city council meeting in Salem, Oregon on July 27, 2026. Not a sign shaped like one. Not a drawing. An actual guillotine structure appeared at the protest to oppose a proposed multi-billion-dollar AI data center. Company reps reportedly left, citing safety concerns.
yahoo.com
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”.
Salem's city council voted unanimously to pursue a data center moratorium after residents - and a guillotine - pushed back on a $5.1 billion AI facility.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Healthcare workers belong in hospitals, not detention centers. Over 100 nurses rallied outside Maine Medical Center in Portland on Aug 5, forcing ICE to release Debora Kapisha on Aug 6. Organize, speak out, and demand permanent protection for essential workers. 🎥NowThisImpact
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's been almost 2 months since police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside a Mississippi Walmart and while local leaders are silent, community members are not. New from me on what's happening in Senatobia, MS for @theintercept.com:
theintercept.com
Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.
In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE www.mainepublic.org/immigration/...
mainepublic.org
MaineHealth nurses demand release of colleague arrested by ICE
Debora Kapisha, a medical-surgical nurse at Maine Medical Center in Portland, was detained on July 30 at Logan Airport, according to the nurses union.
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Re-reading Neuromancer for the 1st time in decades. In the cyberpunk future of the story, super-intelligent AI’s exist but are highly restricted, with kill-switches mandated in case one gets too smart. Boy that part sure didn’t come to pass.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 04/08/2026
An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza's failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing three cancer patients a day. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/sile... #Palestine #Israel
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‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisis
An Israeli strike destroyed two major medicine warehouses in Deir al-Balah, the latest Israeli attack on Gaza’s failing health system. Gaza’s Health Ministry says medicine shortages are now killing...
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He’s searching for the term “expansion joint.”
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I was a certified hater my entire adult life. How could one not be, growing up punk in New England in the 80s? But in recent years my attitude has softened.
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The thing about James Carville is that his guy got a plurality of votes in a 3-way race 34 years ago.
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Hm bummer for Israel
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/08/2026
The DHS alerted employers that it had officially ended humanitarian protections for about 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs that threaten to disrupt travel and destabilize an array of institutions across the East Coast and the Midwest.
washingtonpost.com
Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers
The Trump administration and courts are at odds over whether about 350,000 Haitians have officially lost humanitarian protections, but employers are already letting workers go.
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and briefly handcuffing a U.S. citizen." texasobserver.org/ice-car-chas... -- @gaigedavila.bsky.social
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ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley
Immigration agents sped after a vehicle through a residential neighborhood on the same day of the agency’s traffic stop pause, reportedly endangering a mother and son—before pulling a gun on and brief...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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NBC Bay Area @nbcbayarea.com · 30/07/2026
More than 100 people in San Jose’s Japantown gathered to oppose a possible ICE detention facility in Gilroy on Wednesday. nbcbay.com/CHWkqIc
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
haitiantimes.com
'Should I keep paying my mortgage?' Haitian families confront impossible choices around TPS
Many Haitian TPS holders are beginning to grapple with the potential domino effects of TPS ending, including financial, family and mental health impact due to job loss and potential detention or depor...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026
Trump has made the death penalty a cornerstone of his law-and-order agenda. Nowhere has his vision been pursued more relentlessly than in Florida, thanks to an unusual concentration of power in the governor’s office. with @nytimes.com
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Florida Is Executing Prisoners at a Record Pace, Even as Most of the U.S. Abandons the Death Penalty
Early last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis began signing death warrants at a faster rate than ever before. What followed was the most intense period of executions the state has carried out in more than eight ...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🧵 NEW: Louisiana residents are demanding the local board of former air force base drop a planned crackdown on protests at a new ICE facility for kids. England Air Park Board of Commissioners introduced a resolution that could potentially hinder their ability to protest. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
nola.com
Local authorities plan crackdown on anti-ICE protests at Alexandria detention camp
At the Trump regime's new ICE detention center for children in Alexandria, Louisiana authorities are trying to crack down on protests and prayer vigils
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hey, look, Mamdani speaks for Americans while his many critics… do not.
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Mike @mrenthusiasm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Get fucked, Bezos
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A Texas appeals court ruled the state did not provide any evidence that Houston midwife Maria Rojas violated the TX abortion ban. While a win, her low-cost clinics will likely not reopen. Bkgd @texasobserver.org: www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-p... Ruling: reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u...
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Ken Paxton’s ‘Shoddy’ Prosecution of a Midwife Is Part of a Strategy to Expand His Power. Low-Income Houstonians Are Paying the Price.
Maria Margarita Rojas is the first healthcare provider charged for abortion care under Texas’ strict criminal ban. Her attorneys say the state has no evidence—yet her clinics remain shuttered.
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Gary Gifford @garygifford.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Anti MAGA protest Bend Oregon. Father and daughter fighting fascism.
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