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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So is that whole "Congress has the power of the purse" thing just ... not a thing anymore?

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Jon Husted said “our work ethic is broken,” but that’s not what I see. Ohioans are working harder than ever before just to put gas in the tank and food on the table, all while billionaires and CEOs get tax breaks from Washington. The system is rigged, and I’m in this fight to fix it.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 01/10/2026

Complaints have limited legal value outside their case, but the one suing for the murder of Renee Good is an important cultural document. It tracks a grand opera of horror and hate that culminated in the death of a woman at the hands of her government. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CASE 0:26-cv-04231-LMP-DJF Doc. 1 Filed 10/01/26 Page 1 of 149
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA
BRENT GANGER, as Trustee for the Next of
Kin of RENEE NICOLE MACKLIN GOOD,
Deceased, and REBECCA GOOD,
Plaintiffs,
v.
JONATHAN ROSS, individually; STEPHEN
MILLER, individually; KRISTI NOEM,
individually; COREY R. LEWANDOWSKI,
individually; THOMAS D. HOMAN,
individually; TODD LYONS, individually;
GREGORY BOVINO, individually; and JOHN
DOE FEDERAL AGENTS 1–10, individually,
Defendants.
Case No. ________________
COMPLAINT
INTRODUCTION
1.
On the morning of January 7, 2026, Renee Nicole Macklin Good (“Renee”),
a thirty-seven-year-old United States citizen, poet, and mother of three, dropped her six
year-old son off at school, drove home through her own south Minneapolis neighborhood,
and stopped her car in the middle of Portland Avenue. Federal immigration agents were
operating there. They were masked, as was their practice throughout Operation Metro
Surge. Renee honked her horn to warn her neighbors. Her partner got out and began to
film. Renee stayed behind the wheel. She was not the target of any investigation, and she
was breaking no law that any federal officer had authority to enforce. Numerous vehicles,

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms

A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fake Zuck speech in the trailer is totally right. Do you want one person to decide what ads can run on social media platforms? It's 2026 - look around! What if the Trump-aligned tech oligarchs just said they were taking down all Democratic ads because of "fact-checks"?

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026

The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If folks in the Democratic party cannot find it within themselves to be absolute staunch supporters of trans people's rights because trans people are people who have inherent worth, then they should at least do it because if we give up on trans people, then we're literally giving up on democracy.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026

Near the end of the video, you can hear someone asking, "can you say a word for us, sir?" Lawmakers ignore reporters all the time, but the subtext of the question — i.e., concerns about McConnell's health — adds a very different layer to the resulting silence.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Transgender voters in Kansas! I want to talk about your plan to vote this November — are you not voting, out of ID/safety concerns? Voting by mail? Getting registered to vote? Doing in-person advance voting? Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or DM me! I'm a trans reporter working at The 19th News.

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyone watching a video of McConnell: Hm, he does not seem quite aware of his surroundings. Can someone look into this? USA Today: Well, one Republican senator says he's fine. Let's print a subheadline presenting that as fact. And journalists wonder why trust in media is falling.

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

While the media might find it fun to do another 500 hours of Piker discourse, it might be fruitful to look at the actual political record of Mike Rogers as a lying war-monger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

thenation.com

Why Aren’t We Talking About the War-Mongering Lies of Mike Rogers?

The media's relentless focus on Hasan Piker allows the dishonest GOP hawk (and actual Michigan Senate candidate) to evade scrutiny.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026

Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the number would be even higher if democrats didnt spend so much time making out their immigration stance as gop lite.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 15/09/2026

This is bad

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026

Glad folks are appalled by photos of the "phone booth" cage under an awning, but pls understand: This IG report is likely part of a cover-up. Amnesty Int'l interviewed detainees EIGHT MONTHS AGO who said the cage was half this size (couldn't stand up), had no awning, w feet chained to the bottom.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Oh, see, I only hang out in this sex trafficking dungeon because there's a great community of minor league baseball fans here. I don't have anything to do with the sex trafficking or child raping, honest! I've positioned my chair so I'm not looking at it, see, and I've got my earbuds in all day."

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026

Making a powerful person mad by demanding an answer they don't want to provide is precisely the job description.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Musk is already underwater in polls and if Democrats lean in they can make him even more toxic. He's declared open war on you all and is pushing a toxic, destructive, racist agenda. Maybe it's time to push back? I don't know, I'm just spitballing here.

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What I don't get is why anyone thinks they're going to win votes with their moderate position on torturing the Omelas kid. The voters who are passionately pro-torture already have their candidate.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It genuinely blows my mind the degree to which people in power do not grasp (or just refuse to acknowledge) that encampments are preferable to shelters for a whole lot of people, for a long list of reasons.

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

If we get to the justice and reparations phase and I hand over all my data and y’all decide we’re only gonna bring the people with no convictions back, I’m gonna be so fucking pissed, I cannot even tell you. If you respect my work, respect my view that we need to invite EVERYONE back.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was in high school (early aughts), I had a married teacher who made a point of going by "Ms." -- because her marital status shouldn't determine how she was addressed. "Miss" or "Mrs." was still the default otherwise. It wasn't that long ago.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is genocidal rhetoric from the president of the United States. Trump explicitly stated that if Dems win the midterms, “Transgender will never end.” The stated goal of the president of the United States and his party is to make transgender people “end.”

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

George Orwell, on reading this: "OK, but I didn't mean it *that* literally."

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

AGAIN? are you goddamn kidding me? whyyyyyyy does Dan Ariely keep having a job doing research when he keeps falsifying his DAMN RESEARCH? (I know why. I'm just.)

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm so old I remember when People On Here stomped all over a week-long focus on Natalie Harp, including her racism, by biting on a Maggie Haberman story about Kushner and Jeffries. And that's why you can't do both.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 28/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Put together, this doesn't paint a picture of a dedicated resister fighting a shadow war against the Trump admin. It looks a lot more like a scammer who preys on people's hope, and gives them a false narrative to hang their hopes on. All in service of a merch store. That's the Alt National Parks.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The idea that we need absolute deference to mass opinion on technical questions of nuclear weapons control but no compromise with the electorate on "who gets to go to our whites-only school?" is a really perverse way of thinking about politics.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The Harp debacle is breaking through in a way nothing has since Epstein. And it's a lot easier to follow than Epstein. Every Democrat should be relentlessly hammering the White House for allowing this clearly unwell woman access to the president, and the insane culture of sycophancy around Trump.

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 20/08/2026

I had a higher security clearance while I was working at a VA hospital than Natalie Harp had for an entire year while working on the President of the United States

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"How was I supposed to know that the scorpion would sting me?" --the frog, drowning in the river

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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026

the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%

bluesky post by Politico saying "Progressives didn't get the big election night they wanted" referring to Abdul el-Sayed defeating Haley Stevens in the MI Senate primary and linking to their story with that headline.

bluesky post by Politico with the text "The far left hits a wall" referring to David Crowley defeating Francesca Hong in the WI Governor Primary and linking to their story with that headline

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Popular Information contacted all of Miller’s corporate donors and asked if they continued to support Miller’s candidacy. Citi declined to comment. The other donors did not respond.”

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oldfolkmelody.bsky.social @oldfolkmelody.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The AI Target uses to write copy seems quite pleasant, but I'd never felt such a strong urge to yeet someone into the sun until I read these assembly instructions.

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Aisha Harris @aishaharris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

“Was silence not an option?” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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