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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 45m
In a scathing 28-page ruling, the judge, Gary R. Brown, condemned the agency’s tactics when it mistakenly arrested two Hispanic men, including a US citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 27m
At least 81 U.S. military aircraft totaling as much as $3.3 billion have been lost or damaged since the Iran war began.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 1h
Is there anything that the Russian government could ever say that the current US President wouldn't accept and amplify? This is doing irreparable damage to US credibility and to the safety of the US and the countries that are still formally its allies.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1h
Wait. Is this real? Please say it isn't. This is Seb Gorka-level powerpointing
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In which Texas Republicans refer to Muslims as "infestations" and argue that "we basically have to make it so uncomfortable for them that they want to leave."
houstonchronicle.com
Texas Faith Fest speakers propose plans to make Muslims ‘more uncomfortable’
At Texas Faith Fest this year, speakers suggested policies that would limit Muslim religious practices and reshape the government's relationship with religion.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16h
there's a lot going on right now, but the ability to buy elections in order to stay out of prison is on the ballot whether you realize it or not
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 1h
The desire for unconditional love from one’s parents is so primal my first assumption in any case where the child has gone no-contact is that they weren’t receiving it in the first place.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 1h
Records obtained by @americanoversight.org: "The Trump administration reduced training for officers whose departments agreed to help ICE from four weeks of in-person education to 40 hours of virtual training last year as part of a broader effort to expand the agency’s footprint across the nation."
washingtonpost.com
Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1h
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Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
Meanwhile, over on X, the Secretary of Homeland Security is posting about "vandalizing the demographics of America," a phrase which is either a chilling suggestion of white nationalism from Mullin or just straight pablum which means nothing but sounds just fash enough to excite the faithful.
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“Vandalize the demographics of America” is either a chilling phrase suggesting that Mullin is a white nationalist or an absurdly meaningless bit of pablum  which ignores 250 years of the constantly shifting demographics of a nation of immigrants.

Underneath is a picture of Mullin with a quote "How do you turn a country from democracy to socialism? You have to change the demographics."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
Funny that all the people who do Trump's bidding with foreign governments turn out to be "outside consultants" who are paid in opaque ways and are unaccountable through any form of oversight. This is not normal. But it is the diplomacy of a kleptocracy.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2h
BREAKING A federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center's Trump-installed board to UNSEAL the 163-page report (with redactions) on the $250M+ renovation plan and two year closure. The Board also must unseal a related Powerpoint. Doc buff.ly/E6jyjGl
ORDERED that Plaintiff’s [74] Motion to Unseal is GRANTED IN PART. The Clerk of the Court shall unseal in full the [65-2] Delta PowerPoint. Defendants shall submit to Plaintiff and the Court any proposals for narrowly tailored redactions to the [65-1] JLL Plan, accompanied by particularized and substantial written justifications, no later than October 14, 2026. Plaintiff shall file any response to the proposed redactions no later than October 19, 2026. The Court will then review the proposals and rule by separate order.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
By "a few folks in the media," does Secretary Kegsbreath mean Trump's own Navy Secretary who reported on all the attempted suicides by sailors stuck on the USS Abraham Lincoln?
Eight USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Attempted Suicide During Deployment in Iran War: Navy Secretary
“Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Hung Cao wrote.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h
Thanks SCOTUS
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h
This is so damn bleak. "The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled this week the biological sex of a transgender woman fatally shot by Samuel Ward Jr. in June 2022 was not only relevant to Ward’s claim of self defense but supported it." jamiescoop.substack.com/p/court-judg...
jamiescoop.substack.com
Court: Judge ‘misled’ jury on biological sex
Tennessee appellate court first to rule on gender identification ‘evidence’
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h
As always with Rs, the sense is not so much that they deny the physical phenomenon of climate change as the presence or absence of the phenomenon simply never enters their thinking. They interact with it *purely* as a partisan matter, something libs care about. No awareness of a world beyond.
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Ben Winslow @benwinslow.bsky.social · 2h
A split 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the courts do have the authority to review asylum cases in a lawsuit filed by a Utah refugee from Rwanda and her son. This is a circuit split, so it could go to SCOTUS. #utpol #Utah
Before TYMKOVICH, PHILLIPS, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.
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PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
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Agnes Mukantagara and her son Ebenezer Shyaka sued United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services in federal district court for terminating
Mukantagara’s refugee status. The court dismissed their suit for lack of subject-
matter jurisdiction. It relied on 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), which bars courts
from reviewing immigration agencies’ discretionary actions. It held that
§ 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) applied to 8 U.S.C. § 1157(c)(4), the Immigration and
Nationality Act’s provision for terminating refugee status.
We held that 8 U.S.C. § 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) does not apply to Mukantagara
and her son’s suit. See Mukantagara v. Noem, 164 F.4th 765 (10th Cir. 2026),
vacated by Mukantagara v. Mullin, 181 F.4th 1088 (10th Cir. 2026). We
reasoned that the action Mukantagara and her son challenged was not
discretionary, though a related action was. See id. The government moved for
rehearing, and soon after, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Mullin v.
Doe, 146 S. Ct. 2121 (2026). Doe seemed relevant, so we vacated our opinionand asked the parties to brief us on it. With that briefing and argument, we’ve
landed about where we started.
Section 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) doesn’t bar district court review of USCIS’s
termination of refugee status. Doe’s careful consideration of the words
“determination” and “decision” has refined our analysis, but it doesn’t
substantially change it. Termination of refugee status under § 1157(c)(4)
involves two decisions. The first is a mandatory, nondiscretionary decision—
whether an alien met the INA’s definition of “refugee” when admitted into the
U.S. The second is an exercise of discretion—the agency may choose to
maintain an alien’s refugee status even if that person didn’t meet the INA’s
definition of refugee when admitted into the country. Because Mukantagara and
her son challenge only the first decision, which is nondiscretionary,
§ 1252(a)(2)(B)(ii) does not apply. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.
§ 1291, we reverse judgment in favor of the government and remand to the
district court for further proceedings.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon"
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 4h
Hugo Chavez-linked PR flack Michael Shellenberger — a random guy with a Substack who rakes in donations to fight a “censorship complex” that he created — would like you to know that journalists reporting on his attempts to smear people are propagandists.
Lithuania's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. EU Disinfolab declined to comment.
"If you believe that emailing questions to government officials and others constitutes
'pressure,' then you are a propagandist and a toady and should stop misrepresenting yourself as a journalist," Shellenberger told Rapporteur.
An EEAS spokesperson said: "The reason for the request to remove the logo of the EEAS was that organisers chose to frame some of the discussions in a way which does not align with the official positions held by the EU. "
Global Affairs Canada did not respond to questions about its decisions to withdraw support.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3h
Hey, here's a random thought: maybe all of us who are Democrats and progressives should pause attacks on each other for the next three weeks and focus on beating Republicans. I promise our arguments will be so much more interesting in January after a blue tsunami.
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Red @redpainter1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can you imagine if a Democratic President told Iran to blow up a city in Texas or Louisiana? FOX would have 24/7 coverage
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h
NEW: ICE shared voter data with data giant Palantir, which was preparing to enter that information into a surveillance tool for federal immigration enforcement operations. The development offers further evidence of ICE's deployment in Trump's multi-front attack on elections.
democracydocket.com
ICE shared voter data with Peter Thiel’s Palantir, new documents show
The documents said the company was preparing to enter the data into a highly controversial surveillance tool it developed for ICE.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/10/2026
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 20h
Troy Jackson: Brett Kavanaugh was against abortion when Susan Collins met with him. She knew that was going to happen, and now after it's been overturned, she doesn't regret the vote. Everybody else in Maine and across this country regrets her vote.
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Matt @nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 4h
Don't worry everyone. Donald Trump was just joking when he said Iran should take out Los Angeles and San Diego. He'd never actually condone attacking the United States of America. Oh wait.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’d argue the entire media does this consistently
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OverUnderClover. America i cant w/you right now. @overunderclover.bsky.social · 3h
•so Do they just get isolated to their closest water supply?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4h
EXCLUSIVE: A third-country national finally freed from an Eswatini prison got stuck in the international terminal of the Johannesburg airport for days due to suspicion about his emergency travel document. He’s now safe in Laos, his “home” country he’s never been to. prospect.org/2026/10/07/t...
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Third-Country National Stuck in Airport for Days After Release From African Prison - The American Prospect
Finally out of the prison Trump expelled him to, Phone Chomsavanh’s fight for freedom hit one more snag.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h
NEW: ICE flagged Zumiez, a popular skate store found in shopping malls, "for further investigation" in Pennsylvania because it supported voter outreach efforts. The streetwear brand was among hundreds of groups probed by ICE this year as part of Trump's ongoing hunt for noncitizen voters.
demdock.com
ICE investigates mall staple favored by teen skaters in its hunt for noncitizen voters
Zumiez was among hundreds of groups, most of them nonprofit organizations, probed by ICE as part of the Trump administration’s hunt for noncitizen voters, new records show.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: Trump wants to transform the 2030 census in ways that'd dramatically skew representation. So we asked you to send us your questions. And we invited an expert on the census, who just published a new book interviewing 100s of census workers, to answer you. I learned a ton reading her replies:
boltsmag.org
Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
The Trump administration plans to upend the census. They’re proposing to exclude noncitizens from the count that determines the distribution of congressional seats, a move that would subtract politica...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4h
Tim and I were pretty tough on Tillis on the pod Monday. But not tough enough!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h
Pretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students.
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts, which are designed to elicit information about race. And UCLA Law’s admissions staff instructed prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application—during race-based recruitment efforts, such as its annual “Diversity Admissions Open House”.

The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
Wait, is it a crime for the President's sons to use the expectation of preferential treatment from the government contracts to make money?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
Trump is about to sell out Ukraine, basically the culmination of the 2016 influence operation, but that history has been memory holed. www.youtube.com/shorts/yDK-8...
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Trump's Team Sells Out the US
YouTube video by emptywheel
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h
A U.S. Army study found shock gloves purchased by ICE to control detainees and protestors cause overwhelming pain. Army employees who tested the gloves experienced "fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5h
Samara oil pipeline hub is on fire in russia. Notice how it’s not an apartment building, kindergarten, school, or hospital like when russia attacks Ukraine, but the aggressor’s economy, attacked to limit the aggressor’s ability to wage war, not to murder kids in their beds.
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OverUnderClover. America i cant w/you right now. @overunderclover.bsky.social · 4h
What is it about the southwest that pressures do much diverging adaptation?
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5h
A much-needed explainer from @citizencohn.bsky.social about those $500 checks (bribes) Trump is sending out as an alleged Obamacare "refund." Looks quite likely to be illegal. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 5h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has an idea for deciding who qualifies for Social Security: Let AI decide. meidasnews.com/news/mike-ro...
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Mike Rogers Said A.I. Should Be Used to Determine Social Security Eligibility
The GOP Senate candidate from Michigan has a long history of trying "decimate" benefits for millions of Americans
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h
In the authoritarian mind, society is deeply and intrinsically hierarchical. Either they're above you, or you're above them. Either they have the liberty, or you have the liberty. You can't both have it.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 5h
As Transportation Secretary, I could always count on a Congressional Republican to take credit for an infrastructure win that they had voted against. That's the type of behavior that makes people cynical about politics - but it doesn't have to be that way.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 6h
🔴 SCOOP: The chair of a lobbying firm paid by the UAE sits on a government council advising ministers on how Britain uses sport and culture abroad. As Man City's verdict puts Abu Dhabi in the spotlight, our latest investigation 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-u...
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Revealed: UAE lobbyist advising UK government on sport and foreign policy
FGS Global chair Roland Rudd accused of "blatant conflict of interest" for advising ministers on foreign affairs while his firm lobbies for UAE embassy
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h
Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazing how quickly rank-and-file adopt Trump's pro-Putin talking points
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