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Justine 🫘 @justinebayarea.bsky.social · 7h
Boom! 💥 60 seconds!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h
🚨BREAKING: A judge ruled the DOJ's policy of collecting states' unredacted voter rolls and urging them to remove voters flagged as ineligible is illegal. "This policy...has left untold numbers of disenfranchised voters in its wake and inflicted injuries to the Plaintiffs' privacy," the court wrote.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 4h
When ISIS killed my friend James Foley on camera they put him in an orange jumpsuit as a direct reference to images of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Not fucking interested my government having a fucking propaganda CONVERSATION with tomorrow’s terrorists, thanks.
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rahanks.bsky.social @rahanks.bsky.social · 2h
My drop box is at my local library and it’s usually counted within 3 days of my deposit!
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 2h
California holds the key to the House majority. But it also is slow to count slow late arriving mail-in ballots. Put your mail-in ballots into drop boxes instead or vote early in person, and we can remove Trump’s ability to leverage the lag after Election Day.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 7h
"Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business."
propublica.org
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h
“The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.”
theatlantic.com
The GOP’s Message to Immigrants
Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Brenden Cuni is a judicially determined perjurer and falsifier of records. Yet he remains on the job with ICE, unpunished. bsky.app/profile/empt...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 7h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 6h
It would be a complete capitulation of Congress if it were to confirm the person who has been helping lead the Trump administration's takeover of Article I to a position that is supposed to be Article I's lead guardian against such takeovers. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/t...
washingtonsun.com
White House Floats Russ Vought’s Deputy to Lead Congress’ Watchdog Arm
OMB Deputy Director Eric Ueland has presided over massive shakeups to the federal workforce that the Government Accountability Office has deemed detrimental.
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CNN @cnn.com · 19h
Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. cnn.it/4rRrZU0
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h
Marshall's conduct would appear to constitute a theft of services felony under Kansas law (K.S.A. § 21-5801—the same statute he used to send people who stiffed him on his bills to prison).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Ossoff: "on Marco Rubio's watch the world is on fire, we are hemorrhaging our munitions stockpile, the administration appears to be trying to coverup combat casualties ... and he's trying to soft launch his presidential campaign. These people are not focused."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h
The Navy board of inquiry literally wrote in its report that the Trump/Hegseth anti-trans policy “significantly limited the scope of the proceeding,“ such that it felt the need to add this information “[t]o accurately capture the totality” of the board’s findings regarding a trans service member.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 17h
Holy crap. NYC man shot by masked ICE agents and whisked away. 5 year old in car, street crowded w/ families & children. Mamdani now speaking, calls it an outrage. Remember: can't use deadly force w/o imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. ICS "sows chaos and terror across our country."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h
NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...
Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19h
American "free speech defenders" pressure other people not to exercise their right to free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h
From April
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 20h
Iris Rose, a school therapist, said she saw a man bleeding on the ground in front of a car, while agents milled around, one holding a small child. “He was all full of blood,” she said. “How could you do this? What is going on? And then I’m looking at the baby.” The latest:
buff.ly
ICE Agents Shoot New Yorker, Officials Say
As shots rang out, bystanders sheltered in neighboring businesses, eyewitnesses told The City Reporter and Documented.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 23h
Seems like a great post to use as report Elon's latest 24-hour FEC filing. The world's richest fascist just added... $1,304,222,21 Which brings his total spent in the midterms to... $39,865,669 Yes, you read that right. Yes, that's nearly $20 million in the last week alone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 08/10/2026
Reps. Tlaib and Green lead letter demanding release of DACA recipient in ICE custody Ya’akub Ira Vijandre has now been in ICE custody for a year for ‘liking’ a social media post You can read the letters by clicking here: algreen.house.gov/media/press-...
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026
“Bruno Chery, 34, said he had more than $6,000 on him when he was arrested at a court hearing in Massachusetts. Immigration authorities had put the money in an account, he said, but upon his release … he did not receive a debit card with the balance. “‘I lost everything,’ Mr. Chery said.”
nytimes.com
Haitians Deported From U.S. Are Left Broke and Stranded
Hundreds have been deported to Haiti in recent weeks, and some say they have been left with no money, no protection from gangs and no place to go.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guilfoyle, in her prior role as a Fox News host, endorsed the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton for “racketeering” and “corruption” because Clinton was supposedly “willing to sell access” through the Clinton Foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme. www.mediamatters.org/kimberly-gui...
mediamatters.org
FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2026
“We want people to come in the right way,” they said — and then barred every entry except a hatch labeled “white South Africans only.”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The candidate’s name is Bernadette Greene-Placentia. And her opponent, Abraham Hamadeh, has defended the Tate Brothers.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elon's money is funding a truly abhorrent racist campaign in Texas
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are people who think “fake accusations” of rape—which are rare—are a bigger deal than rape—which is everywhere. Those people need to be fired into the sun.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/10/2026
Imagine believing we live in a time when lenders discriminate in _favor_ of Black & other minority borrowers.
realtor.com
Wells Fargo Settles Mortgage Discrimination Suit With $100M Fund To Help Low-Income Homebuyers
About 50 regions in the country will benefit from the new fund, which offers mortgage and down-payment assistance to low-income areas.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/10/2026
The lengths these people demonstrably want to go to resegregate the country, good Lord.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.
democracydocket.com
ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...
abcnews.com
Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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OptaSTATS (bot) @optastats-bot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the only pitcher in MLB history to earn the win in 5 straight postseason appearances while not allowing more than 1 run or 1 walk in any of them. All 5 have come on the road. 🐦 x.com/OptaSTATS/status/210764484340…
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember that Collins voted repeatedly to fund ICE with no guardrails and in June voted against an amendment that would have required body cams. Then after the outrage over Maine dad Johan Sebastián’s death, she tried taking credit for a new body cam commitment from ICE (which it’s not honoring!)👇🏽
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The wreckage of the DOJ civil rights division www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tired: No one ever wrote a song called Fuck The Fire Department Wired: Cops paid someone millions of dollars to write a song called Fuck The Fire Department
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