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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
Yes, 100 percent. There's no reason why a Democratic House can't defund both the Office of Remigration and third-country deportations more generally. As I reported recently, here's what's being discussed: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 9h
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h
I think this is reasonably likely and also is basically an unimpeachable caucus belli for packing the Court.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13h
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 11h
Uh, OK!
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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 11h
Reminder that Vice President JD Vance has said that he considers Curtis Yarvin a friend
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 11h
And then this drama happened in 2024 & 2025: four low- and moderate-income apartment buildings on land zoned for single-family homes in the Valley advanced despite opposition of Mayor Bass and most of the City Council. web.archive.org/web/20250220...
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Affordable housing in the San Fernando Valley advances despite opposition from Bass, City Council
About 850 apartments for low- and moderate-income residents in the San Fernando Valley will advance after multiple lawsuits overturned city denials.
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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 11h
Six months after signing ED1, Mayor Bass changed the rules to DENY fast-tracking for any project located near single-family homes. laist.com/news/housing...
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Housing Advocates Sue City Of LA For Stalling Affordable Housing Near Single-Family Homes
Mayor Karen Bass decided last year to exclude single-family neighborhoods from her signature housing policy. Now the city faces a lawsuit over the change.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12h
The president of the United States says that "the New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested" for denying that the arena in which he spoke had empty seats. It's really bad! www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
The Ohio Arena was already full to the brim — And yet these people were still trying to get in. The New York Times said, “There were empty seats” when, in fact, there were none, and thousands of people had to be turned away. The New York Times, and many other Artificial Media Outlets, should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country. When Bernie Sanders has 500 to 1,000 people, they make it sound like it’s the biggest event that ever took place. When PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP has 50,000 people, they make it sound like nobody showed up! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 13h
Interesting thread. To me the open question is what to do with Georgism today given its (to me, contingent) origin in laissez-faire land use controls. In modern America, where LU regulation is intense in magnitude and layered in source, how to arrive at a "true" valuation as a tax basis?
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 13h
The Bay Area public transit #MeasureRTM polling shows 48% support, 34% opposed, 18% undecided. This means only 1 in 9 of the undecideds need to vote YES to get over 50%. Volunteer w the campaign now to help make this happen, opportunities listed here: 👇👇👇 luma.com/connectbayarea
“WHO IS LIKELY TO SUPPORT TRANSIT TAX?
Support for the regional transit tax that would fund BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit depends on age group and housing situation.

Registered voters
48% yes 18% not sure 34% no
By age group
18 to 34
69% yes
35 to 49
44% yes
50 to 60
35% yes
By housing situatlon
Renters
60% yes
Homeowners
34% yes

Source: Bay Area News Group/Joint Venture Silicon Valley poll of 1,801 adults in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, conducted online Aug. 5-18, 2026. Margin of error is +/- 2.6 percentage points.
BAY AREA NEWS GROUP”
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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h
I mean, it’s an incentive thing right now companies, even ones who aren’t ideologically aligned with the GOP, do believe the GOP will fuck them over for not going along and they don’t believe Dems will impose consequences for that you’ve gotta change that, executives need to think twice
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 15h
It's what explains why Musk runs roughshod over environmental or consumer-safety laws, and Meta thumbs its nose at corporate-tax laws: experience has taught them to expect no punishment. It's elite impunity in practice: when you're a star, they let you do it.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20h
just found out this week how many additional, smaller bolsonaros they’ve got down there. bad news.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h
i think the fact that most serious ATV injuries happen as a result of the ATV itself being unsafe, vs most (not all!) ebike injuries resulting from car crashes is not a comparison that makes the *ebikes* look bad bsky.app/profile/laur...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
Aside from the obvious unfairness of people getting rich off of uncompensated stealing of creative works, we should think really hard about what it means that the people who keep winning economic jackboxes to become oligarch-rich are the ones who are willing to cheat and break the law
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22h
What will the Court do to us this term? It’s already taken away Roe v. Wade, given Trump a pass from prosecution for January 6, and permitted partisan gerrymanders. How much worse can it get? This term, there are some distinctly unpleasant possibilities. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
October 4, 2026
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 05/10/2026
There is an argument that some AI-psychosis-sufferers tend to make which I find very gross, stupid, and bad. It goes something like, “the way you are talking about Claude sounds a lot like how they used to talk about [some historically marginalized group], sooo, you better think about that”.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 16h
"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14h
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21h
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 20h
Set record for longest serving GOP Speaker of the House✅ Went to prison for sexually abusing teenage boys✅ Highest ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence✅ Would love to see that last record broken soon🌅🇺🇸
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h
This is happening all over rural America. We need to wake up, people. There's no Greg Bovino in his Nazi coat to blow whistles it. It's daily Gestapo-type terror, aided by the banality of evil local cops www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...
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ICE enforcement in a small Utah town sent a community into fear. Local police played a key role.
ICE enforcement in a small central Utah town has residents afraid to leave home, avoiding main roads and keeping their children home from school, one resident said.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22h
*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h
This is so unsurprising that the NY Times miscounted the number of Trump press secretaries to join Fox News. Leavitt makes 3, not 2: Kayleigh McEnany is a current host, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a Fox contributor between the end of her WH tenure in 2019 and her 2021 run for Arkansas gov.
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 16h
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
One of the few things that would turbocharge important institutional reform:
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YIMBY Action leads are voting on a recommendation for Prop 45 today. If you or any of your friends are on the fence, I highly recommend reading this great thread. Tl;dr: AB130 already exempted infill housing from CEQA. Prop 45 would just open the floodgates for sprawl.
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Damien Newton @damientypes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We did a deep dive into just how bad it is for transportation before editorializing: it’s pretty bad. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/10/02/s...
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Streetsblog Endorsement: No on Prop. 45 - Streetsblog California
CEQA was enacted at a time when new highways and highway expansion was destroying communities, and a big part of the reason to create CEQA in the first place. Prop 45 would roll out the red carpet for...
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 03/10/2026
And forbids HSR from being fast-tracked, and prevents the legislature from changing that without 2/3rds approval Prop 45 is yet another example of why corporations legislating via the ballot box makes for bad laws and worse outcomes
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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No membership-based YIMBY group in California is supporting Prop 45. The campaign also has zero transit org supporters. Much to consider
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Trump’s Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge A 50-foot construction corridor scraped through the 272-foot carving in Cabeza Prieta refuge, where DHS had waived cultural-site protections"
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "When I see that Talafreako in Texas. So he's been a vaygan all his life. He's a vaygan vaygan, I didn't even know what the hell a veygan was. A veygan is vegetables. A vaygan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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