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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's important we get this right

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the loss of privacy for adults is the actual intention; they want all our movements linked to our state ID like most moral panics “the kids!” is a bad faith smokescreen for the encroachment the fascists desire

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 26/09/2026

/ UR NOR'EASTER IS UPON U BOSTON / AS U SLIP DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR NOR'EASTER / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR DEATH SPIRAL / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM / 1 THING IS 4 CERTAIN / WEATHER IS HAPPENING / & ITS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite* part of all this was his defense: "of COURSE i told a violent dealer where his target was so he could chop dude up with a machete and then covered it up... thats standard cop stuff that everyone else does too! I only got charged b/c the Chief/Mayor doesn't like me, it's retaliation"

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

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Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Really can’t get over the fact that in the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballots case, Sam Alito’s official position is “I know this rule would disenfranchise millions, and I know the law says I’m supposed to consider that fact, but I don’t care and won’t do it”

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Samuel Alito: Disenfranchising Millions of Voters Is No Big Deal If Mister Trump Wants It

For Alito and Thomas, there is no greater injustice than Donald Trump not getting what he wants, when he wants it.

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On this 25th anniversary of 9/11 with coverage ranging from inane to Islamophobic, I wrote this to reckon with the ways Democrats as well as Republicans created a law enforcement infrastructure to go after Muslims & immigrants. We can't change it if we don't also hold Democrats accountable.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The failure to hold the perpetrators accountable—condoned in Obama’s proclamation about the “need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards”—gave sanction to the soft authoritarianism of Bush, greasing the constitutional skids for the hard authoritarianism of Trump.” @baherazmy.bsky.social

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Sadistic, Blatant, and Wanton

Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/09/2026

Call your mayor and yell at her, Boston.

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Jeff Stein @jeffreystein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today’s @radleybalko.bsky.social op-ed is worth reading. Trump’s crimes are the apotheosis of—not an aberration from—the decades-long, bipartisan project of executive aggrandizement. If we want a better future, we’ll have to reckon with this history and build safeguards to prevent its repetition.

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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened.

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop.

Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community.

Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered.

Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Holy shit

And the exposed records aren’t just random members of the public. Krebs found the driver’s license of the sitting Secretary of Defense sitting in there for sale:

[Image: A webpage from the NEXUS Identity Document Database shows a locked Minnesota driver's license record for Peter Heg******, featuring a portrait photo of Hegseth and redacted personal details with a "Purchase Record" button at the bottom.]

A bargain! Only $100 to get a scan of the Secretary of Defense’s driver’s license.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This guy wanted to charge the ICE cop who blindly fired his gun into a house with a child inside, then lied to justify the shooting. DHS also tried to deport a witness, and publicly slandered the man who was shot. Trump's people blocked the prosecution, then fired the prosecutor for going public.

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Nate Clauser @nateclauser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Somerville has been fortunate to have @jtforward2.bsky.social on the City Council these last 9 years. A staunch, principled democratic socialist who hasn't equivocated or triangulated, and has consistently used the powers of office to relentlessly pursue the values and agenda they campaigned on.

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Derek @somervillennial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

cambridge will literally spend forty thousand dollars instead of turning off shotspotter www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/03/m...

People from 15,000 households across the city will be invited soon to enter a lottery system to be picked to join a 40-member “demographically representative group of residents” who “will learn from independent experts, deliberate together, and develop recommendations for the City Council on the future of public safety and surveillance technology,” city leaders said in a press release this week.

Participants will be picked by mid-October and will be asked to meet on four Saturdays in October through December.

They will get $1,000 stipends for their time, and the city will “provide other accommodations, including child care, interpretation and translations,” the announcement said.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026

Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.

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Jeff Stein @jeffreystein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

On today’s grim one-year anniversary of the Trump administration’s boat strikes campaign — which has snuffed out at least 227 lives — it’s more important than ever to insist that the strikes are not simply inhumane and ineffective, but illegal. My reflections in @thehill.com :

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Trump’s boat strikes are illegal. Does it matter?

An ACLU attorney argues that the Trump administration’s boat strikes off the Venezuelan coast are illegal, immoral, and ineffective, citing the deaths of Trinidadian nationals Chad Joseph and…

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Massachusetts law forbids providers from withholding care based on gender identity, but Fenway Health ended lifesaving gender-affirming care for 400 young people almost a year ago and so far has gotten away with it. So much for our "progressive" state. Solidarity with the arrested activists.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The oligarchic Ellison family purchased CBS and installed the right-wing Zionist functionary Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief for moments like this.

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It's Always 9/11 Somewhere

A desperate ruling class returns to 9/11 politics as its hold on power slips. This is a clue as to the function of Islamophobia in the United States

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/09/2026

If you feel hopeless about national politics and your inability to make any positive change, can I suggest getting involved in local politics instead? You'll still have the complete inability to make any positive change, but at least you'll *also* be making enemies of your neighbors!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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JP Antifa @jasonpaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

50,000 people disappeared by secret police. In one month.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026

The thing about the incompetent ailing senile nazi pedophile president is that even when he half asses every attempt at undermining a century (or so) of established democratic norms and institutions like the census etc is that even his bungling is still damaging, achieving an outcome he desires.

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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This week’s episode is National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, where the Court held that elections are really about sharing money with your friends.

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NRSC v. FEC

Podcast Episode · 5-4 · August 18 · 38m

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am glad people are increasingly aware of and angry about how we detain ppl in ICE facilities. But. There is one thing I think we need to REALLY make sure they get. This is not abt ICE. Or the Feds. Or private prisons. Our ENTIRE SYSTEM is like this. All the time. State, local, public, private.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

capturing the supreme court means that they are so certain they will not face consequences that they put illegal orders like this in writing.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/08/2026

not only is this impeachable for Trump but the people like Emily Underwood who put their time and effort into helping him punish an entire state because of his tantrum should also face severe consequence for their behavior

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."

But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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JP Antifa @jasonpaul.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

50 years.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“You have to read halfway through the user manual to find this warning: ‘CD3s [the family of technologies to which the G.LO.V.E. belongs] may increase the affects [sic] that can cause sudden death…’”

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 13/08/2026

I think the very least we can expect from the mayor is to uphold the specific campaign promises he made on policing. He immediately walked back his commitment on the gang database.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Did the left go too far in 2020? I don’t know, Cornelius, let’s circle back after we learn how many ICE agents will be getting the new electric shock gloves

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Universities denounced themselves as complicit in systemic racism.” Well yes, my university for example held the charred bones of Black children killed by Philadelphia police and at least one faculty member was using them to teach forensics so yes, gosh, there was some necessary self-denouncing

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

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JT Scott @jtforward2.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Oh, you mean to say that it is wholly insufficient for a City Council to have to rely upon a City Attorney who works for and is beholden to the executive branch as their sole legal advisor? Hmm. I recall saying this for many years, and yet when we had the chance to address this in the Charter...

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