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I'm a bird app refugee. Currently working in Cyber....whatever that means ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🤔An 1866 law called the Thayer Amendment states: “Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities.”
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Trump’s Handpicked Arts Commission Approves Gold Coin With His Face on It
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/01/2026
Gov. Newsom at Davos rips into world leaders who think they can appease Trump: “I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.…this is pathetic”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 06/11/2025
Long live the jury trial in America.
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Jury finds D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ not guilty of assaulting officer
Sean C. Dunn admitted he flung the hoagie at a federal agent. His attorneys called it a “harmless gesture” of protest as Trump commandeered D.C. police.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
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DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys
It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
oh good i was worried he might face the tiniest amount of consequences
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Trump’s $464 Million NY Civil Fraud Penalty Vacated on Appeal
A New York appeals court struck down a $464 million fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his company in a civil suit over his asset valuations, but upheld his liability in the case, handin...
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Laurie Brookins @lauriebrookins.com · 21/08/2025
They have to show up in the dead of night and without notification, because they know it’s wrong. Effing monsters. Gift link: www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
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Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight
“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.&#82…
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Recent panic that the Supreme Court might soon overturn marriage equality is unwarranted—the justices are highly unlikely to take up the case that has people worried. And this freak-out risks diverting attention away from the court's subtler, ongoing attack on gay rights. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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The Sudden Panic That SCOTUS Might Overturn Marriage Equality Misses the Real Threat
Kim Davis’ case will not be the vehicle the court uses to eradicate the equal dignity of same-sex couples.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/08/2025
1. Everything is fucked 2. because of republicans 3. we have a lot of work to do
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12/08/2025
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
In The Handmaid’s Tale, the Commanders preach purity but sneak off to brothels. It’s not fiction, it’s a mirror. The most repressed are often the most controlling. If they just let themselves enjoy life, maybe they wouldn’t burn the world trying to punish everyone else for enjoying it.
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Oklahoma authorities investigate reports of explicit images on state education chief's TV
Authorities in Oklahoma have opened an investigation after two members of the State Board of Education said they saw images of naked women on a television screen in the office of state School Superint...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
And all it took was totally selling out
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/07/2025
A remake of the GOP logo with the text: Pedophile Protectors. 

There is a red and blue elephant in the middle of the logo.
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Not Florida Politics @floridapolitics.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A @jenniferjenkins.bsky.social run would be incredible! She did great work in Brevard and that would undoubtedly continue if we sent her to Washington!
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 22/07/2025
Where are my hometown bitches??!! #Cleveland #Epstein
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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brant @oursquad.rocks · 16/07/2025
So naturally the United States Senate will absolutely confirm him to a lifetime appointment
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/07/2025
Next up: sue this administration! A disabled vet says he was wrongfully detained in last week’s Camarillo raid, despite being a U.S. citizen. • Reporting for his security job at Glass House Farms • Told them he was a citizen • No charges. No phone call. No lawyer. • No care after chemical exposure
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit. They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/07/2025
Same-sex relationships have existed since time immemorial. What’s newly visible is the notion that engaging in them might be an exclusive preference and defining quality.
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How “The First Homosexuals” Shaped an Identity
A timely exhibition dissects the emergence of modern ideas about gender and sexuality—and the backlash against them.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Albuquerque, NM - a man was filmed being tazed in a Walmart by unidentified people wearing ICE and HSI vests.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
DIDN'T TAKE LONG: One group suing over Trump's birthright citizenship order has refiled its lawsuit as a class action, noting that the court left open this option for nationwide relief. They're asking a Maryland judge for an emergency restraining order. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Anyway it's our country, not theirs.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
LAT posts a picture of Narciso Barranco, who was violently assaulted by ICE, with his 3 Marine sons. These are the proud Americans Stephen Miller is targeting. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Immigrant father of three Marines is violently detained, injured by federal agents, son says
Narciso Barranco, a landscaper in Orange County, was detained by immigration officials in a violent altercation Saturday. Barranco is the father of three Marines.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Folks, let's not go all rosy retrospection with Elon Musk. Just because he and the Orange Turd don't get along anymore doesn't mean he's invited to the table.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Did they even say “Thank you?” 🤡 #OligarchEra
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The @rollingstone.com hed is a little more direct than the @nytimes.com. 🤡 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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brant @oursquad.rocks · 27/05/2025
What a fucking time to be a white criminal in America
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Todd and Julie Chrisley Pardoned By President Trump
President Trump is looking out for his fellow reality TV stars ... because POTUS just issued full pardons for "Chrisley Knows Best" stars Todd and Julie Chrisley.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 12/05/2025
NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.
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Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
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brant @oursquad.rocks · 06/05/2025
lemme check that doomsday clock real quick
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
yeah i am pretty much on the side of primary everyone
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“We have to get rid of the Biden ‘overhang.’” 🤡 - Trump, 4/30/25
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brant @oursquad.rocks · 28/04/2025
Useful idiot uses Useful idiot
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In a sane country, this would lead the news and horrify everyone. But this is America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...
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2 U.S. Citizen Children Were Deported to Honduras With Their Mother, Lawyer Says
The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family’s lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Elbows up, Canada! 🇨🇦 Get out there and vote. Don’t let what is happening to us, happen to you.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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