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Paul T Carney

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A major win! A federal court in Texas today temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region. The fight isn’t over, but this is a big step toward protecting Big Bend!
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Judge temporarily blocks border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region
A federal court in Texas has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall in the Big Bend region.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Election balloting can be ornate and complex, but I've checked with the League of Women Voters and in every state, it is permissible to take a guide into the voting booth with you. I hope this can be of some assistance:
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And where went the money for these lives in the balance? Money that our country once delivered to a world in great need? Riding a missile into a girl's school somewhere else. Or nowadays, paying a corporation to build more missiles, faster. We are the shithole nation. We are the global stain.
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Paul T Carney @pt68.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy birthday, Ana! And this is Tucker Bunn with his friend, Isis
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 06/09/2026
Gonna watch Andor again.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you've cared for loved ones with dementia, you will recognize this disinhibition phase that we are currently witnessing with the fascist in chief. And much like what sometimes happens in families, there seems to be a deep sense of denial/averting the gaze happening across the country.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BET Digital has permanently removed all its digital news articles from its website to 'prioritize video content,' I'm told. Years of news articles are now gone forever. Some writers were able to save their stories; some weren't
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump’s DOJ asked courts to dismiss consent decrees negotiated with the Biden DOJ & signed by cities in cases where the DOJ found patterns & practices of discriminatory policing, including the Louisville Metro PD where DOJ found misconduct among ofcrs involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A career lawyer at DOJ said “she received a message from DOJ leadership asserting that all of the Dept’s lawyers - including its civil rights attys - needed to be fully on board with the President’s agenda.”
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An element of this purge that is perhaps overlooked is the long term impact. It’s not just 10% gone; it’s some huge number of fascist or fascist-friendly senior officers being put in positions that can last a long time.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RFK Jr.’s new drive to get us off anti-depressants brings home the vast number of death’s he’s already been personally responsible for, and the sheer amount of suffering. I believe that he alone, even among the crew he’s a part of, will be remembered as something other than, worse than, a villain.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Awe, this is heartbreaking. This is 5-year-old Liam Tadeo. ICE plans to deport him, tearing him away from his mother. He has spent the last few days detained with his father at the Dilley, TX detention center, a facility that has faced serious allegations of abuse, neglect, and terrible conditions.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jesus.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are a lot of evil shits in this administration, but this gormless ghoul is right up there at the top. I hope @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have a Project 2025-sized playbook of investigations and inquiries into what he's been up to, because I bet we only know a fraction of his fuckery
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/08/2026
you need to read the use of "woke" here with a hard R
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Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley (Gift Article)
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our Grifter-in-Chief 😡
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Journalist Reveals Just How Much Money Has Been Diverted From National Parks For Trump's Vanity Projects—And People Are Livid
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I try not qt Rupar, as much as I value what he does, because I know so many others will so mine isn't needed, but... this is full on Man in a High Tower stuff. We have gone through the portal and we live in the world in which hitler won.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump’s hand puppet fired the reporter
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60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump's hand puppet fired the reporter - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bari’s Weiss’s rolling catastrophe continues: Deutsche Bank AG failed to promptly notify authorities of more than $250 million in questionable transfers tied to Epstein, according to Wyden’s report. Those included cash amounts to pay women in Russia and Eastern Europe—of which the bank retroactively informed U.S. officials after Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in […]
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Louisville Public Media @lpm.org · 03/08/2026
President Donald Trump's administration has taken aggressive steps to boost coal production, but those efforts may only have partially succeeded. www.lpm.org/news/2026-08...
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Trump policies favor coal, but rail data show a drop in domestic shipments
President Donald Trump's administration has taken aggressive steps to boost coal production, but those efforts may only have partially succeeded.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
Barack Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List: 

Kin by Tayari Jones
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Whistler by Ann Patchett
This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage
Vigil by George Saunders
One Sun Only by Camille Bordas
Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu
Data Empire by Roopika Risam
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NYT: "Bordeaux never experienced a day w/ temps at or above 39 Celsius (102.2 degrees) between 1921 and 2000, according to Météo-France, the national climate and weather service. This summer, it has happened eight times, including on Wednesday, and the season is not even half over."
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 30/07/2026
“This morning I received another phone call again from her, and she was telling me she really needs a hospital. She's never experienced something like this before, and at this point, what I care about is her medical attention.”
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Louisville Public Media @lpm.org · 30/07/2026
After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a local jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – now she’s in a health “crisis.” www.lpm.org/news/2026-07...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is actually terrible. share.inquirer.com/61wsnb [gift link]
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ICE wants to deport a Philly man who has lived legally in the U.S. for 20 years. He fled Guinea after being jailed by the government.
Mamadou Fadel Cherif had been jailed in his native Guinea for protesting the 1998 presidential election, then fled to the U.S.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 16/07/2026
“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Just living out the Nathan Pyle cartoon.
Two eagles dismissing the idea that the owl is a predator because he's never bothered either of them. "No idea what Mr. Mouse was going on about."

https://www.facebook.com/nathanwpyle2/posts/1057523929076061/
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/07/09/p...
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Made in America: The Products of U.S. Prison Labor Are All Around Us
A project by photographer Daniella Zalcman shows the casual prevalence of goods made by prison labor in public and private spaces.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bravo, sir!
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101-Year-Old WWII Veteran Goes Viral With His Blistering Rant About 'Fascist' Trump—And We're Cheering
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Warning! ⚠️ Things are going to be bad this midterm election. The Trump administration has fired the remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), leaving the independent bipartisan agency without any sitting commissioners.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026
The case for impeaching four Supreme Court justices over birthright citizenship
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The case for impeaching four Supreme Court justices over birthright citizenship • Tennessee Lookout
Attorney and constitutional law professor Larry Woods writes that dissenting justices in Trump v. Barbara deserved impeachment.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. lack mericans have fought to make them true. --essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I wrote an essay for the nation's 250th, refusing, first of all, any definition that we are all one thing or another. Mamdani, Good, Pretty, Bad Bunny, and Liu have star turns further on in the piece.
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What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I speak of the century from 1923 to 2024 (B.A.E.) in which everyone knew a stroll between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials, accompanied by restful pauses, reflections, even a picnic or two, was among the great joys for visitors and D.C. residents alike. But no, the Assholic Era is now upon us.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This part... "a juvenile child fleeing..." He was 1.
Indeed, Crump and the family were incensed over the Mississippi Department of Public Safety's legalistic use of the term
"juvenile" at all. In a statement about the shooting last week, the agency described Wiley_as a "juvenile child fleeing."
"He was a one-year-old infant baby. He was not a juvenile," Crump cried to cheers from the audience. The term juvenile frequently applies to youth in court proceedings, both a term and a system that many states limit to a minimum age of no younger than 10-12
years old.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I wrote about forced labor in ICE detention: the way it mirrors concentration camp systems around the world and grim parts of U.S. history as well.
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Forced labor in concentration camps
Shameful exploitation of captive workers has deep roots at home and abroad.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fun fact: We don't have Christian tests for office NOW bc a Jew named Jonas Philips convinced the Constitutional Convention to ditch it & do the whole "religious freedom" thing as a core principle of this nation. Ahem. (Jews didn't have the right to vote in all states until Reconstruction btw.)
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Letter from Jonas Phillips to George Washington (1787)
Sires With leave and submission I address myself To those in whome there is wisdom understanding and knowledge. they are the honourable personages appointed and Made overseers of a part […]
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I’m very excited for this! On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance legends gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. The trailer for “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” is out:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sadly this morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Sen. Mike Lee’s amendment to eliminate the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects roughly 45 million acres of national forest land.
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2026
another day, another insane arrogation of authority
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Trump found a new way to steal. The Trump administration is redirecting at least $90 million in National Park Service fee revenue to Washington, D.C. projects tied to this year’s July 4 and America 250 celebrations. According to published reports, that includes a $1.6 million fireworks
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