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Jennifer S

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think by the time you are actively trying to drown desperate people in the sea by knifing their dinghy you have lost the right to be called an activist, even a far right one, and must be labeled a terrorist or at minimum a thug but what do I know.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Poll “died on toilet” you cowards
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A free society cannot allow the government to disappear people in order to cutoff access to legal remedies.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“This is the first time in my adult life where there’s been an issue that’s come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me.” Only I mean ONLY a white man could ever see and admit this phenomenon. This is what some call “white privilege,” more accurately: race and racism protects white men.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you missed it, the Trump administration is now attempting to effectively dismantle the ICC.
reuters.com
Trump administration prepares sanctions against International Criminal Court, sources say
President ‌Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to announce them soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, a move that ...
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 20/09/2026
Elite athletes, musicians, actors & more often use cultural importance as an excuse for why they're exempt from cutting their emissions. In this new analysis led by @manuelsuter.bsky.social, we argue the opposite: visibility and influence should raise the bar, not lower it! Read more:
nature.com
The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action
In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump asked Russ Vought, OMB Director and the devil incarnate, to draft an executive order placing political appointees in charge of NIH grant funding, following the NIH director’s refusal to cut grants to Harvard.
politico.com
Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
When someone claims that a mistake just happens in the system, and it's always the same kind of mistake, and it always benefits the person who set up the system... It's not a mistake. It's happening on purpose.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” The @USFWS's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, as revealed by Nesvik's memo, is the perfect blend of evil and stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In related news, I'll be starting the Medlock sportsbook. Every line is even money, no vig, max bet $580, both sides mandatory, one visit per six months. It's time to gamble our way to Medicaid for All.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows
If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In which WSDOT plans to add bike lanes to just 0.8 miles of a 2.75 mile repaving project and "defer" the rest, in spite of the 2022 Complete Streets mandate. Why? Because the department doesn't want to touch the existing lane configuration.
Map of SR 525 with a bike lane just at the southern end
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
sfchronicle.com
ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’
ICE owes millions in unpaid bills to hospitals and, in some cases, detainees themselves have been directly billed for care, records show.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've been seeing a lot of "well I guess this is the way things are now" "ah another line of evidence that we are a fallen empire", attitude that I am begging people to shake off. There are people working their butts off to make things better. Please don't give up. Join us.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.
Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member. 
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
npr.org
Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report
After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects
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Morgan Clendaniel @mclendaniel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.fastcompany.com/90856401/the...
fastcompany.com
These groups fighting offshore wind say it’s about whales—but they’re funded by Big Oil
Is offshore wind bad for whales? These ‘community groups’ want you to think so, but they’re linked to one man with strong ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The longer I look the more dubious this “study” becomes: “Four items assessed the justification of political violence: setting fire to ICE buildings, damaging the property of wealthy people, killing Donal Trump, and violence against police.” opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/08/2026
we've got a reporter on the ground in Gary, Indiana where an impoverished minority community went without power for 2+ weeks. the climate future is here, it's just unevenly distributed prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...
prospect.org
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tim Curry played the devilishly charming Darkness in Ridley Scott's Legend (1985). The original US and UK cuts were missing a lot of material, but an earlier cut was found in 2002, restoring 24 minutes. One of the best-looking fantasy films of the 80s, or in general. Tom Cruise and Mia Sara starred.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Costco runs it's own rigorous food inspection program. And they didn't bend the knee on DEI. Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women. And they are refusing to carry trump meat. So that's where I'll be shopping.
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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
one day it will finally be time to post this song for a happy reason
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Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Dolly Parton · New Harvest...First Gathering · Song · 1977
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Literally nobody, including MAGA, had any ideological commitment or pre-existing policy goal of picking a fight with Canada. This is all happening solely because the crazy old man randomly blurted it out. And that makes it worse. There's nothing to negotiate, no aim to satisfy. He's just insane.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
13. Trump doesn't do any of this. Sacrifice is for losers. Work is for suckers. It's why he's the laziest president of our lifetimes. The most he will do is pretend to be winning, which merely requires him to go on the TV and lie.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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Dawn Summers real or fake @dawnsummers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026
New study finds that the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China has prevented over 300,000 premature deaths. Conversely -- and this is just math -- everything done to prevent the rise of EVs in the US leads to more preventable deaths of Americans. It's not an academic debate.
nature.com
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China - Nature Health
Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon mo...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The president is threatening to sue a think tank for $5 billion unless they retract a report stating that his National Guard deployments to American cities under the guise of fake emergencies didn't make those cities safer. It's like a Con Law exam question about executive abuse of power.
nytimes.com
Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/08/2026
At its best, energy system modeling is a way for smart, well-intentioned people to honestly explore the potential consequences of different actions. At its worst, it's a way for people to manipulate other people into believing their opinions because their numbers and graphs look like science.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The centrist think tank The Searchlight Institute told Democrats that talking about climate change would hurt them. One problem with that counsel: it's based on lies. Searchlight's own polling shows👇 & that on climate swing voters want Democrats to fight harder and "do more." 1/2
In fact swing voters' top concern with the Republican approach to climate change is that the Republicans are not making
climate change a "top priority" or that they're "not doing anything.
Q6c:
What concerns or disagreements do you have with Republicans' approach to the issue of climate change?
In what ways are Republicans out of step with your views on this issue?**
RANKED BY HIGHEST PERCENTAGE
Not a top priority/not doing anything....
Deny climate change exists...
Like Republicans/do a good job
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Deregulation/rolled back environmental protections
Lack of support for renewable/clean energy initiatives
Self-interest/out for themselves..
Too lax in reducing emissions/pollution.
Eve orhindia reing that is best or the people.
Nothing....
Other approach comments...
Other miscellaneous comments
Other positive comments.
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Don't know..
** Asked of one-half the respondents (FORM B). Ok, let's just pause here and ask the obvious question: Why would Democrats want to copy an approach that battleground voters
dislike in Republicans?
They wouldn't — unless "the data" told them to. But the data fails to support the contention that Democratic messages
"are actively weakened by a focus on 'climate?" In truth, the data strongly conveys the opposite: that climate hushing, climate silence, "not doing anything," or not having climate as a "top priority" is political behavior that concerns battleground voters and that they actually disagree with.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When your government says it’s planning to open multiple prisons that will house up to 3,000 children, it’s time to demand a new government. There is no context in which this is legitimate or acceptable.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026
This is 100% why people who've been on X for years now get so weirdly bummed out by Bluesky or any other site. It isn't that bsky is a 'bubble', it's that being a shithead in the replies gets you an immediate nuclear-block, rather than immediately rewarded with Skinner-box treats
404media.co
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/08/2026
No matter how many times you sneakily re-enable the AI 'features' I repeatedly turned off and did not consent to, I WILL ferret through my settings to turn them off again, but this DOES feel a lot like a guy trying to get my number at the bar who will not take no for an answer.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
wired.com
The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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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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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We need to prosecute white collar crime in the US with utter ruthlessness and zeal. One of the reasons we’re here (pick the “here” hellscape you prefer) is because we not only socially but legally accepted elite impunity.
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