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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation is infamous for organizing Project 2025. As I was investigating Heritage, I found that it promotes a network of Christian nationalist schools to parents. That network was founded by Doug Wilson, who is well-known for his extreme views. Read my investigative report here:
civildefenseinstitute.org
How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling — Civil Defense
Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
talkingpointsmemo.com
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure it’s tenable if, going forward, every president knows that so long as they have firm control over DOJ, enough loyal senators to avoid removal, and are willing to issue blanket pardons on the way out, they can break any law they please while in office.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.)
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I am now reading @poisonivy.bsky.social's account which starts with "I’ve dropped a few articles about my experiences at Vibecamp, and interactions in the Rationalist / Effective Altruist corner of the TESCREAL diaspora." Because nothing seems to take these people out 😡
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Boko Haram fighters are using the artificial intelligence chatbots of Big Tech companies to help build more powerful bombs, plan attacks and solve problems during combat"
aljazeera.com
‘Just ask Grok’: How ISIL is using Big Tech’s AI to build bombs
Evidence shared exclusively with Al Jazeera shows ISIL supporters sharing ways to bypass AI safeguards.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was told by a guy on Truth Social who wears orange makeup that leaking to the press was treason and people should be prosecuted for it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
theguardian.com
Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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msmmwelch.bsky.social @msmmwelch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A real-life warmonger.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yikes. The oligarchy continues to consolidate power. 😕 🇺🇸
semafor.com
Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Obituary: teacher, children’s author, and musician David R. Martin fought injustice and made art with any objects he found buff.ly/jDQpubk
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Obituary: David R. Martin, 1944-2026 | Seven Days
Teacher, children’s book author and musician fought injustice and made art with any objects he found
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yikes, Tim Tebow — the latest Pablo Torre/Mother Jones investigation has questions about “Life Surge”, a company Tebow is a face of that’s taking Christians deep into debt with real estate investment classes that cost as much as $40,000🤔 (victims: “a scam”) More: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An @DoorDash driver. They are hunting brown people. #AbolishICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He got fined. He did it again anyway. 🫡
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Someone wrote you a check for $100 MILLION+ right before you were sworn in...” @SenWarren grills new Trump fed chair pick Kevin Warsh. (His father in law is Ron Lauder, ‘World Jewish Congress’ president who wants to spend billions “countering anti-Israel narratives”)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gen Z women refuse to have our bodies and reproductive agency pressed into service in some futile attempt to balance the books of a chaotic economy. www.commondreams.org/opinion/make...
commondreams.org
If the Government Wants More Babies, It Should Make Parenthood Affordable | Common Dreams
Gen Z women refuse to have our bodies and reproductive agency pressed into service in some futile attempt to balance the books of a chaotic economy.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” The most efficient travellers are us on bikes. Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMath
scientificamerican.com
The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“That was one of the best experiences of my life.” 🚽 A New Yorker uses one of the 17 public bathrooms @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social had put in around NYC👇🏽 — this must be that “SoCiALiSm” we’re supposed to be afraid of! Again: The big problem the fearmongerers have is @ZohranKMamdani exists
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I have studied propaganda for decades, including authoring a book on Italian Fascist propaganda cinema, and I can tell you that a merger that would create a propaganda megastructure encompassing entertainment content and news would be devastatingly effective..." substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was making a door dash delivery. Every time they get away with this it guarantees it will happen again. #AbolishICE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These are human beings
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Susan Neiman, author of “Call It Evil,” argues that many institutions capitulated to the Trump regime because of a tendency to regard virtue as naïve: “When self-interest becomes the basis of reason, evil no longer needs to justify itself. It’s already been mistaken for rationality.”
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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History, by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Cripple Creek Miners' Strike Narrated by @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social #WeAreAmerica250 #OrganizingWorkers #Unions #SafeWorking youtu.be/EHGGdpzdifI?...
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Cripple Creek Miners' Strike, Narrated by Sherrod Brown
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Convicted on all counts. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/17/l...
chicagotribune.com
US Customs and Border agent convicted of raping, robbing sex workers in Chicago-area hotel rooms
A federal jury on Thursday convicted U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent Luis Uribe on all counts alleging he used his gun and badge to rape and rob Chinese sex workers in Chicago-area hotel room...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
I'm enjoying these cultural touchstones where "I'm not political" is clearly demonstrated as both political and feckless important for this country to get past the "no politics at the dinner table" or my "favorite celebrity shouldn't 'get political'" bullshit if we're to behead some oligarchs
theguardian.com
Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are demonstrating the self-sacrifice necessary to stand against those crushin...
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fingalpimpernel.bsky.social @fingalpimpernel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'd love this
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
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Michael C Merritt @mikecmerritt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Multiply that $15k times the 8 million cars in Virginia and you’ll see that Virginians spend an additional annual $120 BILLION on clinging to a car centric transportation network.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
QUESTION: How tf is it a “sale” of weapons to 🇮🇱 if we 🇺🇸 taxpayers are the ones paying for these bombs? 🤔 💣 It’s really wild how dumb Trump & Bibi think we all are. Playing in our faces. A war & genocide nobody wants or understands, and we all pay - In multiple ways.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In 1991, construction of a new 34-story office in Lower Manhattan unearthed the remains of roughly 15,000 Africans 20 feet below ground. Many were enslaved to build the city. NPS calls it “the oldest & largest known excavated burial site in N. America for both free & enslaved Africans.” 🧵 More: ⬇️
nytimes.com
The New York of the Past Is Still Visible Today. You Just Have to Look. (Gift Article)
Traces of New York’s layered histories can be found scattered throughout its contemporary urban landscape.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Where’s this clip? Why is this one not going viral? Yeah
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MS NOW Public Relations @msnowcomms.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🎧 In the latest episode of “Clock It with Symone & Eugene,” @symonedsanders.bsky.social and @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social speak with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social on Black political power, how ordinary people can create lasting change, resistance movements and more.
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Why We Should Fight for a Future We Won’t See
Podcast Episode · Clock It with Symone & Eugene · September 3 · 1h 6m
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Belfi Rivera was 14 when the Arizona Diamondbacks made a handshake deal that would pay him $1.8M after he turned 16. But $630K went to a trainer who brokered the deal, and $950K+ went to a lender whose business partner is Red Sox legend David Ortiz.
propublica.org
How the Dominican Baseball Factory Traps Young Players and Their Families With False Promises
Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“We were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs.” @bariweiss was brought in to kill 60 Minutes. What you’re seeing now from CBS News(max) is a Trump/Israel propaganda zombie. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fir...
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msmmwelch.bsky.social @msmmwelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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msmmwelch.bsky.social @msmmwelch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Medicare for all
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
nyc.gov
September 11 Docs
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msmmwelch.bsky.social @msmmwelch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's to a future with rational thinking.
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msmmwelch.bsky.social @msmmwelch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Healthcare should be between professional providers and patients.
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