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Neil Gordon

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Consultant, Sailor, and Cyclist. Brookline Advisory Committee Member, Town Meeting Member and Constable. Co-chair of Brookline PAX.

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Linda Pehlke @chandra17.bsky.social · 12h
ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program prospect.org/2026/10/14/i... Truly terrifying. Must be stopped.
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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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Mara Dolan @maradolan.bsky.social · 13h
Letter to NYT on story about self-proclaimed “moderate” Susan Collins hits the frozen nail squarely on the head.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In one month from now Trump will be openly seeking to overturn the Nov 3 results. We all know that is coming. That is why Democratic AGs should announce now that if anyone tries to interfere in their election--including Trump-they will prosecute under state law. Trump can't pardon state crimes!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/09/2026
No matter where you are, you can get involved in the No Kings coalition’s early vote activation and election protection campaign. Join our upcoming No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn everything you need to know.
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No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call · No Kings
Join our September 10 No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call to learn more about the vision, urgency, and strategy behind the No Kings coalition’s early vote activation and election protection campaign and...
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Neil Gordon @neilrgordon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Dutch central bank announced that it was shifting about $12 billion in gold from the vault in New York to the Bank of England’s vault in London. This follows a move by the French central bank to shift an even larger sum from New York to Paris. They don't trust Trump.
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Neil Gordon @neilrgordon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We need to start calling it "Socialism Security."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/08/2026
When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth polled top commanders in 2025 about cutting a program meant to protect civilians from harm during military operations, they all said it should be kept intact. Hegseth gutted the program anyway.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Speaking of the helmet discourse, it's the final days of this awesome deal from FEND. Save 20% off their full line of foldable helmets with code THEWARONCARS, applied automatically at checkout. fend.io/pages/thewar...
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The War on Cars
Explore FEND's foldable bike helmets. Easily fold and store in any bag. Perfect for urban commuters and designed to go anywhere with you.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's almost like he’s some kind of narcissist or something 🤔
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump: “You don’t pay the tariffs.”

Also Trump: “I’m suspending tariffs on beef so you can have cheaper prices.”

MAGA is so fucking stupid.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
True.
Jamie Bonkiewicz: E. Jean Carroll has done more to hold Donald Trump accountable than the entire United States Congress.
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Command is responsibility. When you send Sailors and Marines into harm’s way, you owe them a clear mission, the resources to sustain it, and leadership that never loses sight of their well-being. What is happening aboard the USS Lincoln demands answers, not excuses. Leadership Matters!
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Someone has to hold it down at the Woo Sox game.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile" still continues to sell well at Community Bookstore in Brooklyn—and they have the new edition with the "National Bestseller" label. Get your copy and support independent booksellers! www.communitybookstore.net/item/p5lAnqx...
Yellow, white and black book cover of Life After Cars on bookshop bookshelf.
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Tresa @tresaharbin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And we know why...he's the most corrupt president that the United States has ever had...
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Neil Gordon @neilrgordon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Understand that there are no days off when a warship is at sea. The watch stands, 24/7! Been there, done that, and never a full night, uninterrupted sleep.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13/08/2026
Would sure hate to be any Republican candidate defending Trump's (their) record this November.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
MY LATEST: Donald Trump's effort to seize control of the 2026 midterms is looking more and more like his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. After months of rhetoric and lies, he is getting humiliated in court. newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-plan-...
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Trump's plan to block mail-in ballots just hit a nationwide wall
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Republicans put unfit, unhinged Pete Hegseth in office and refused to exercise oversight. Republicans gave Trump a blank check.The Iran war disaster is a Republican disaster, one that should disqualify the party from holding power. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Hold Republicans Responsible for the Iran Disaster
Where Democrats go from here — plus, Dems defy 'hot takes' in yesterday's primaries.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump is destroying the beautiful, untouched land of the Big Bend region in Texas to build a completely unnecessary border wall. One of the contractors, who has received $2B in federal contracts for the project, just so happens to be a major Trump donor. There’s always a grift.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
Community Engagement and Public Safety: Evidence from
Crime Enforcement Targeting Immigrantst
By FELIPE GONÇALVES, ELISA JÁCOME, AND EMILY WEISBURST*
We study the role of victim reporting in the production of public safety.
We examine the Secure Communities program, a crime-reduction policy that involved police in detecting unauthorized immigrants and increased deportation fears in immigrant communities. We find that the policy reduced the likelihood that Hispanic victims report crimes to police and increased offending against Hispanics. The number of reported crimes is unchanged, masking these opposing effects. We show that reduced reporting drives the offending increase and provide the first elasticity of offending to victim reporting in the liter-ature, calculating that a 10 percent decline in reporting increases offending by 7.9 percent. (JEL J15, K37, K42)
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Reflecting Pool case was doomed to fail from the start. DOJ’s willingness to scapegoat an innocent man to indulge Trump’s lies of vandalism is shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The claim was a lie. Trump had no evidence of vandals. He makes shit up all the time. That's the big story, the never-ending story, the story that needs to be reported over and over.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Todd Blanche quite obviously lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he told them this was dead. It was never dead. It was just on hold until he was confirmed.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's amazing how many times he told this lie. But the accordion hands were the tell all along.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Truth isn't their strong suit.
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Labor Department Hit With Blunt Factcheck After Posting 'Godfather'-Style Meme To Boast About Trump
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Dara Gordon @daragordon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Billionaires are trying to buy Trump’s influence & GOP legislators campaigns in order to continue to line their already super rich pockets. AMERICAN VOTERS DON’T FALL FOR THAT & THEIR LIES. Admit how they’ve made your daily lives miserable. Stand strong, vote democratic, bring others along to vote
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/08/2026
"With every lie about Fauci and the pandemic, Republican politicians are driving a wedge between the scientific community and the Republican base." Nothing good will come of that.
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Here Are the Republicans’ Biggest Lies From Their Fauci Show Trial
In their retelling of the COVID story, the doctor was the bad guy, the vaccines were deadly, and Trump did everything right.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
From Trump on down, they all lied.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Trump Treasury Department's top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the Trump White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials' involvement in IRS audits.
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Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits
Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Stop Trump/GOP/ICE/SCOTUS Reign of Terror Against America. @iampilgrim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
GOP is no longer a legitimate political party; it has crossed the line into barbarism, Fascism, cruelty, murder, and inhumanity,
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This was earlier today in Biddeford Maine, the place where ICE murdered yet another person. It's great see people rallying together to push ICE out of their communities
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Michele Riv formerly mama_pause 🧵& dead bird app @rivet-em.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We should not have to live this way. He has stolen 11 years of our lives. We should not have to live every day under assault psychologically by a deeply disturbed POTUS. This is all happening because REPUBLICANS will not do a thing to check his insanity and destruction.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
While Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election, the motive behind this address was to rig the election right before our eyes. His speech was the latest escalation in a fight Trump has been waging for more than a year. newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-speec...
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Trump’s speech failed — but his power grab is accelerating
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Indivisible Mass Coalition @indivisiblemass.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Congressman Bill Keating @keating.house.gov · 16/07/2026
How many people need to die at ICE’s hands before they - and this administration - are held accountable? loom.ly/HWmJTkM
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18/07/2026
Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.
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wesmontgomery.bsky.social @wesmontgomery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
She apparently finds it an easy call to place an official who refuses to accept the obvious reality of Trump’s 2020 defeat in a position that he could use to help undermine American elections. Republicans are still treating threats to the republic as a sideshow. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Susan Collins Is Not Concerned About Election Denial
Mortal threats to the republic are apparently a sideshow that distracts from cutting taxes, confirming judges, and deregulation.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is the FIRST time in history an American President has ever tried to actively undermine American citizens' faith in the integrity of our elections. What an un-American asshole.
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Neil Gordon @neilrgordon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hardworking immigrants don’t kill people. ICE kills people.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
He never deleted it.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...
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Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.
Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Latest Hormuz traffic: @bloomberg.com
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northerngala.bsky.social @northerngala.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Secret Service had safety concerns over Trump’s shiny new foreign gift plane and forced a switch for protection of the presidential entourage. The NYT reporters who covered that story are now being persecuted by Trump’s so-called Dept of Justice.
Rick Stengel, former Time magazine editor
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MAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The most interesting thing for me about going after the reporters is that it is not Trump's usual reaction to things. Typically he would be screaming "fake news!" But in this case he's virtually admitting it's true by getting furious that it came out.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
threads.com/@paul_nesja
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