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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And to be clear, this is just 185 potential noncitizens who are *registered* to vote, not 185 potential noncitizens who *voted.*
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This would not be happening if people remained silent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/08/2026
Bessent on the latest bad jobs report: "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.
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Homeland Security Unable to Prove That Thousands of Noncitizens Registered to Vote in Nevada
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.
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Sophisticated Oyster @ciceronincheese.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey! So, this has gotten worse! I previously shared here that Acton and her campaign were set to meet with the ODP Progressive Caucus leadership on the 28th. That's today, and it was a worst case scenario. (1/?)
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/07/2026
1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Ohio Dem Party Has Banned Criticism Of Gov. Candidate Amy Acton Calling Trans Girls “Boys”
The Progressive Caucus says it was forced to take down its post.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
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Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
New court filings detail immigration agents in Los Angeles referring to potential targets using racial slurs.
Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory” stops in the Central District of California.
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling.

After a June raid at Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan.” A text chain revealed an agent referring to “tonks everywhere selling food” — using a word reportedly derived from the sound an agent’s utility flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head. In a video, an agent said, “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In sweeping attack on elections, Trump fires leadership of key federal voting assistance commission
The dismissals leave the elections assistance agency without leadership just months before the upcoming 2026 midterms.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Launch People to Mars in 2024Elon Musk: Giant Rocket Could Take Us to Marks in Just 7 Years - and London in 29 MinutesCan Elon Musk Really Get Us to Mars Within 10 Years?Elon Musk Is Not a Lunatic
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
All the greatest hits.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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ICE killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. They want you to be apathetic. Don’t be. | Will Bunch
Salgado came from Mexico, built the American Dream, sent his sons to college, and was senselessly killed by ICE.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: The family is demanding the release of Lorenzo’s body. It has been complicated because they removed all of his personal identifying information before they put him in the ambulance. That required the hospital to admit him as a John Doe.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW from @gregsargent.bsky.social: it sure sounds like @ICEgov is trying to stop the witnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo from speaking out. All three of the people in the van have been kept in detention and now ICE is pressuring them all to agree to be deported. /reposted with correct name
But it appears three other people were in the van with the now-deceased man, and they presumably could recount their version of what happened: the victim’s brother and two employees of the dead man’s construction business. They were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the encounter, and we haven’t heard from them publicly about what happened. Now, in another potentially dark turn in the saga, those three men are under pressure from immigration officials to agree to self-deport, Juan Proano, a representative for the families and CEO of the League of United Latin American Citizens, claimed in an interview with The New Republic.

Proano—who regularly confers with the family members of the victim and the three detainees and organized a press conference on their behalf earlier this week—said the family members were able to reach the three detainees, who then related this situation.

“They’re being pressured to sign self-deportation orders,” Proano told me. “They’re currently in detention. These men hold the key to what actually happened.” Under self-deportation, detained migrants agree to leave the country voluntarily within a prescribed time period.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Platner playing games and waiting until the Monday deadline to file the paperwork to withdraw is totally unacceptable. No reason he couldn’t file it today or tomorrow. He has shown in every conceivable way what a piece of garbage he is. Can’t even get out with any decency.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
what a fucking asshole
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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s HOT! Don’t forget to unplug your local Data center to stay cool.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.
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A Venezuelan man was accused of attempting to choke an ICE officer to death in Bellevue. Bystander video tells a different story
Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was referred to by DHS as a “criminal illegal alien” and a “known Tren de Aragua terrorist.” The agency said he “violently attacked an ICE agent” by slamming her head into the ...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/07/2026
WOW. Todd Blanche IGNORES the court order to produce certain Epstein files or explain redactions, and INSTEAD claims it needs more time, and should be able to do it UNDER SEAL. We saw this deflection coming a mile away. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Response to Order to Show Cause – #19 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE re 15 Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed by TODD BLANCHE. (Woodward, Stanley) (Entered: 07/02/2026)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026
this Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy. listen to this shit
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
And we’re all looking for the guys who did this. Guy-in-a-hotdog-suit.gif
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/06/2026
Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...
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EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
NEW: Videos show ICE agents defying Connecticut’s new mask ban during recent arrests. The agency says it “will not abide by” the ban. "Tell them. I dare you,” an agent said in one video. “Who’s going to arrest me?” My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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‘Who’s going to arrest me?’ ICE agents defy Connecticut law on mask ban
"Tell them to arrest me," the agent can be heard saying. "Tell them. I dare you. Who’s going to arrest me?”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2026
it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026
Mamdani: "We continue to be proud of being a sanctuary city. We continue to be ready to stand up for our immigrant neighbors ... ICE is a rogue agency that should be abolished"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2026
Mamdani on the viral "my mayor's Muslim" Knicks fan: "Thanks to him, there are a lot of people who have just been running up to me over the last few weeks just shouting, 'My Mayor's Muslim!' I said, 'It's true. I am.'"
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 14/06/2026
I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14/06/2026
Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel
Rapid Response 47

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This event is about celebrating America’s unmatched greatness after 250 years — which apparently doesn’t sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit clickbait headline.

Rain or shine, we’re celebrating our great country no matter what. GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸
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UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
ABBY PHILLIP: “What about the law, Scott?” SCOTT JENNINGS: “What about it? Who cares?” 🤔 Refreshing honesty from the smuggest man in the world. The law does not matter to them.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
When Hitler fell, the purging of that mindset wasn’t de-Hitlerification, it was de-Nazification. When Saddam fell, it wasn’t de-Saddamification, it was de-Baathification. When Trump falls, it will be de-MAGAfication, not de-Trumpification. The entire movement’s hatred and corruption must be purged.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/06/2026
VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic (El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
more excited for the bugs than the lightning at this UFC shitshow if i’m honest
Instead, the immediate danger to the event now comes from the sky, as both severe thunderstorms and "extreme" insect swarms threaten to disrupt Sunday's fight.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/06/2026
In front of the Lincoln Memorial. This.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hard to believe this is from a guy who inherited $413 million from his father only to declare bankruptcy 6 times before convincing an NBC producer to bail him out by creating a fictional show that he was a successful businessman.
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