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Mom, wife, gamer, history buff. Go Cubbies. Vacation goal = Middle Earth. Shuffling into middle age with the relative grace of a water buffalo. can also be found @verdants@mastodon.social

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: Texas is considering selling a state park to Elon Musk, per sources. (Gift link).
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Texas Has Been Considering Selling a Beloved State Park to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sources Say
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission was scheduled to discuss selling Boca Chica State Park, Texas Monthly has learned.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
The Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles US Attorney Bill Essayli took time out of the day to fact check me, and in so doing appear to suggest that their own lawsuit is wrong. I hope the California is paying attention; they are saying online what they weren’t willing to say in court.
My OP: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMel... • 5h
Once again @USAttyEssayli continues to
SERIOUSLY misrepresent what is going on here.
As the lawsuit HE filed makes clear, DHS and DOJ identified 20,000 people they *believe* are noncitizens on voter rolls. But they ADMIT that t...

Bill Essayli’s response: F.A. United States Attorne...
@USAttyEssayli
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That's not true. The 20k represents the number of noncitizens confirmed by a review of federal databases. This has been confirmed by @USCIS and @HSI_HQ. The data has been provided to California, and they are free to check the work. But that suggests California is actually interested in complying with federal election laws.Another QT of my post:

Incorrect, the numbers add up.
DHS's July figure, up to 190,832 records, was a PRELIMINARY universe of CA voter-registration records that matched records of aliens in DHS holdings that were pending manual review. The approximately 20,000 referenced in @TheJusticeDept's complaint are just the subset of records manually verified so far.
Preliminary screening and completed verification are not the same thing — there is zero discrepancy.Lawsuit screenshot: 45. As part of an investigation into unlawful voting, USCIS-after executing the processes just set forth-sent to HSI for further assessment a list of more than 20,000 individuals who USCIS believes are registered to vote in the federal election in California and are likely noncitizens.
46. HSI then performed its investigative process described above and reasonably believes that around 20,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in California. This means
that, consistent with state law, nearly 20,000 noncitizens in California have been sent a vote-by-mail ballot to participate in the federal election (or will receive one), with many addresses listed in Los Angeles County.Lawsuit screenshot: 60. To be sure, the United States actively investigates and prosecutes incidents of unlawful voting. But it is not practicable or feasible for the United States to investigate before the 2026 election concludes thousands, let alone tens of thousands, of individuals that two federal investigative offices identified on the California voter roster as likely being sent vote-by-mail ballots. California is thus knowingly imposing an obstacle on the United States' ability to enforce 18 U.S.C. § 611 by facilitating unlawful voting rather than working with the Federal Government to prevent it.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 11h
Students from North Carolina A&T marched for about 45 minutes in 85 degree heat to vote at the closest polling station. Making a statement that even if they remove their voting locations, the students will not be silenced 🔥
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After losing on-campus voting sites, NC A&T and UNCG students march to polls
More than 100 NC A&T and UNCG students marched to the polls Thursday to mark the start of early voting. The demonstration came after election officials rejected requests to reopen on-campus voting sit...
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 9h
A thing I think even most people who have paid attention don’t realize about DOGE is that we still don’t actually know what they did. Just obtaining the records and putting people under oath is really important.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
And 3 Weeks Before An Election, Shameful racist fascist Trump.......
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12h
NEW: Ahmed Soliman’s lawyers tell me he is seriously ill and has been hospitalized. They don’t know what exactly is wrong bc an Equatoguinean attorney was not allowed him to see him today. A federal judge ordered him returned nine days ago. He should already be here. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency...” "It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said... prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...
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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect
Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 17h
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21h
Iowa Democratic Congressional Candidate Christina Bohannan breaks with other Iowa Democrats and releases an ad that does NOT throw transgender people under the bus. She answers "unfairness in sports" with "unfairness in prescription drug prices." Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
IA-01 Dem Candidate Christina Bohannan Answers Anti-Trans Ad Without Throwing Trans People Under The Bus
Her approach is markedly different from Sand, Turek, and Trone Garriott.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h
🚨 Pay attention, this is how to organize a protest.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15h
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h
Students from John Burroughs HS walk out, protesting the district's habit of not believing girls, dismissing reports of rape and not maintaining a safe environment for all. This isn't just Cornell, it isn't just fraternities. Men in positions of power dismissing women and girls is normalized
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 19h
Every. Day. Femicide, rapes…..every. Day.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11h
Please say a prayer for Saylor and her family/community. 🙏💕
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h
“I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, Katie, but here's the thing. Mr. Musk has done this before.” Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling tells Katie Phang that Musk previously shut down Starshield because he disagreed with Zelenskyy, then connects that allegation to Trump's latest ceasefire demands.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 14h
A US lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a new bill that would give gamers ownership of the games they buy 🎮 The Power To The Players Act would require publishers to make games playable offline before shutting down their servers
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
The White House again barred CNN from its traveling television pool today — preventing the network from accompanying Trump aboard Air Force One.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
Records show that Trump hasn’t paid a single dollar out of his own pocket for the ballroom, despite repeatedly insisting that he was going to pay for it when the project was announced. But if you go to a Trump rally the attendees will insist that he paid for the whole thing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h
“They just kept kicking me & kicking me” Jewish @washingtonpost reporter Heidi Levine clubbed, beaten, robbed by Israeli terrorists in the West Bank Protected by the IDF. Funded by 🇺🇸 tax dollars. What will it take? Will this get coverage? (H/T @infinite_jaz @DistillSocial)
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22h
A US Army service member's wife was reportedly detained by ICE agents when she was on base picking up ID cards for her and her children. Giovanna Perez has been in the US for 29 years and suspects the Army shared her information with ICE after her husband enlisted.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network and Mi Familia en Acción, my law firm has filed to intervene in DOJ's new voter suppression lawsuit against California. When we fight, we win. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
democracydocket.com
🚨 USA v. California et al
Learn more here.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
americaamerica.news
Donald Trump Is a Traitor
And in a sane world, he would be removed from office now
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
WaPo photojournalist Heidi Levine, a Jewish American, said violent masked Israeli settlers beat her while she covered attacks on Palestinian olive farmers in the occupied West Bank. “They just kept kicking me… probably 50 times,” she said. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers watched without intervening
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 This thread will leave you with more questions than answers, friends. I'm going to tell you the story of Richard Aoki, a Japanese American who was the first Asian Black Panther. Pull up a seat🪑, and bring a drink. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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antifascist (she/her). @muddling.bsky.social · 23h
Me. You can pry the BeeGees, Abba, and Queen from my cold dead hands.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/10/2026
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.
theintercept.com
Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?
Unlike the raid on John Bolton, which was roundly condemned by corporate media, NYT, Washington Post, and WSJ are silent on Trump’s overstep with Omar.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/10/2026
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“More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.

Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.

Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.”
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Richard Branson explains that Trump is Putin's dog.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: We just sued Jared Kushner for unlawfully acting as one of the country's top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. It’s abundantly clear that he should be blocked from performing this outsized role: www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
baltimorebrew.com
A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Armstrong, who serves as comms director for Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), was a member of a chat while at the U-Pittsburgh where members swapped Nazi memes, jokes about the Holocaust and racist stereotypes..." www.rawstory.com/ryan-mackenz...
rawstory.com
Republican's top aide exposed in group chat with Nazi memes and racist rhetoric: report
A top aide to a vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican was in a college group chat that traded racist and antisemitic memes, a report says.Arnaud Armstrong, who serves as communications director for Rep. ...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/10/2026
It’s *interesting* to read that six days ago the Trump admin told a federal judge it was working to “facilitate” Ahmed Soliman’s return to the US…then watch ICE removal planes fly right by the island where he’s being held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and probably again tonight. www.npr.org/2026/10/09/g...
The Trump administration on Friday said it has started to facilitate the return to the U.S. of an Egyptian man who was deported to Equatorial Guinea, in a rare case of the government working to reverse a third-country deportation.
A federal judge in Arizona earlier this week ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the U.S. from the country in central Africa where he has no ties, and respond how it plans to do SO.
The administration said it is working
"collaboratively" with Soliman's lawyers to find and contact him, and is "beginning the process to facilitate" his return, according to Friday's filings in the case from Timothy Courchaine, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona.An FR24 map showing N700KW fly right by Malabo on the evening of October 13.An FR24 map showing N62FF fly past Malabo over mainland Africa on Wednesday evening An FR24 map showing N352BH flying over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean toward Dakar, Senegal. I have drawn a dotted line across the continent in red toward its expected destination (Kenya) to show that it is probably going to fly right past Malabo as well.
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 14/10/2026
A new $20M+ lawsuit against CBS News says Bari Weiss' network "traded the truth for clicks and profit" when it allegedly falsely portrayed a 15-year-old Md. teen as a Reflecting Pool vandal. @TheDesk.net breaks the story thedesk.net/2026/10/teen...
thedesk.net
Teen files $20 million lawsuit against CBS News over vandalism story
The lawsuit claims defamation and invasion of privacy after the teen was wrongly identified as a suspect in the vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
We must crush Musk. Sadly, he pays off both political parties. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
nytimes.com
Most of Ken Paxton’s Money Can Be Traced to One Man: Elon Musk
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Of course it did. Every single official who was "just following orders," need to be held responsible. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.reuters.com/world/europe...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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antifascist (she/her). @muddling.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Yes, he was.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
DOJ just dropped a list of voters it wants disqualified and has threatened legal action against a key state in the midterms if they don't comply with their ridiculous demands. Join me for a complete break down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul0m...
youtube.com
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Drops SECRET Voter Purge List Days Into Voting
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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antifascist (she/her). @muddling.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Winston is still my favorite Ghostbuster.
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 14/10/2026
Miley and Tish Cyrus are helping build Rosa’s Place, a new Skid Row housing development for women and survivors exiting homelessness.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
All right, Mouthy Militia. Do your thing. Let's send that abusive fucking asswipe some karma. Who's in?
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nine former FBI employees who worked on Trump’s classified documents case sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche today, they were unlawfully fired for doing their jobs.
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