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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17h
we're only idiots if we think we should be able to be victorious in every race the first time we try. we're only idiots if we think it's only worth it to try when we're sure we're going to win. they're spending millions of dollars to try to stave us off in TEXAS AND KANSAS. that's winning already.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
One very easy fix here: if you worked for DOGE, you are immediately barred from working on any federal contracts, www.acquisition.gov/far/subpart-....
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Subpart 9.4 - Debarment, Suspension, and Ineligibility | Acquisition.GOV
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pressuring of civil society organizations--corporations, law firms, universities, unions, religious congregations, etc--is the frontline of authoritarian consolidation US law firms are powerful. But they didn't coordinate resistance, and were picked off one by one Some resisted and so far have won
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 09/10/2026
Lauren Jewett challenges Steve Scalise for congressional seat in a heavily Republican district Lauren Jewett, a special education teacher, believes that the ground game is her chance to topple the well-established Republican. veritenews.org/2026/10/09/lauren-je…
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Lauren Jewett challenges Steve Scalise for congressional seat in a heavily Republican district
Lauren Jewett, a special education teacher, believes that the ground game is her chance to topple the well-established Republican.
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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The final attestation, just above Johnson’s signature, reads: “All statements contained herein are true and correct.” “There’s no way he doesn’t have a phone number,” Lay said. “I think it’s a symbol of his lack of openness to his constituents and what they need.”
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⚜️Q @q--tip.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4x the amount of N.O.…they're LYING their asses off tryna make us believe they won't stick us with that bill
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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also fuck you very much, Polymarket, for enabling people to gamble on shit like this.
Graphics from Polymarket's account advertising that people can bet on hurricanes.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ruben Rabasa in ITYSL: He Admit It!
Alt: Ruben Rabasa in ITYSL: He Admit It!
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Ren @renbarletta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bro what
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Marta Jewson @martajewson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Democratic Party has failed to mount Gov challengers in recent years. This is a very close poll for a red state that should have national eyes.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 23/09/2026
Here are the slides from my presentation at today's Documenting the Impact of DHS Activity in Minnesota conference at the U of M - Watching ICE Air at MSP: How many are they taking away? This work is done entirely by volunteers; help MN50501 cover our airport parking fees: mn50501.org/donate 🧵👇
Watching ICE Air at MSP
How many are they taking away?
Nick Benson, MN50501, September 22, 2026Background

Self-employed
* Smart flight alert app for airplane nerds
* Got interested in aviation angle of ICE’s detention apparatus in early 2025
* Got serious about ICE in October 2025
* The most important work I’ll ever doWhat is ICE Air?

*ICE Air is a conglomerate of charter airlines that fly detainees between local prisons, detention centers, and out of the country
* “Shuffle” flights are domestic
* Detainees are shackled before/during/after
* Denver Air Connection / Key Lime, Global Crossing, Eastern Air Express
* Akin to FedEx or Amazon, hub/spoke
* ~65,000 currently in ICE detention,
~70% don’t have a criminal conviction ICE Air at MSP

* Shuffle flights, taking detainees to detention centers via Alexandria, LA and El Paso, TX

* 2-3 flights per day during Metro Surge; now 2-3 per week

* ICE vehicles carry detainees to/from the airport from Whipple

* Loaded at Signature Aviation, the private jet terminal

* Started counting in November
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest column, on the 1874 white terrorist attack on New Orleans, the end of Reconstruction and the modern spread of Jim Crow 2.0 www.nola.com/gambit/comme...
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John Stanton: Marking the anniversary of the 1874 terrorist attack on New Orleans
Sept. 14 marks the 152nd anniversary of the terrorist attack on New Orleans by the Crescent City White League, the white nationalist organization made up of former Confederate soldiers and led by weal...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don’t think people understand how dire the situation is. Conservatives already declared victory on stripping Title IX of protections for sexual assault victims. Now they’re moving onto transgender people and athletics. They want to completely defang the law to allow all gender discrimination.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How long has mail-in voting been around? Historians consider the Civil War election of 1864 as the start of large-scale voting by mail in the United States. There's more mail-voting history in my 2024 report on an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum: www.npr.org/2024/08/24/n...
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A new mail-voting exhibition is a reminder that its use dates back to the Civil War
A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is a reminder that voting by mail with absentee ballots in the U.S. goes back more than 160 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I want to see midterm campaign ads that are just loud ass data center nosies for 30 seconds straight.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
We have a decade of research that says this is a bad idea. Beyond that, we have a decade of research that says this will absolutely fuck over marginalized folks.
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Ren @renbarletta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yess read these!!
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Verite News @veritenews.org · 31/08/2026
New Orleans privacy advocates push for suspension of the NOPD drone program One councilmember, Lesli Harris, said at the committee meeting that “we have to take a hard look at suspending” the drone program amid calls for more transparency.
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New Orleans privacy advocates push for suspension of the NOPD drone program
One councilmember, Lesli Harris, said at the committee meeting that “we have to take a hard look at suspending” the drone program amid calls for more transparency.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
as I've been writing a chapter on the problem of 'security' --yes, this includes social security, health security, human security, etc--is that it too often involves a kind of policing that is not immediately recognized as policing
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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
83% of the Earth's life-without-parole prison population is in US. US is 4% of the world's population.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 30/08/2026
it's time for medicare for all
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The Lens Nola @thelensnola.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#TheLensNola🔍 ICE arrests in Louisiana have reached record highs, as more people without criminal histories are being detained. ✍️ Delaney Nolan Read full article in bio #ICE #arrest #louisiana
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/08/2026
HELLO! Our "let Bree & Donna write a book AND pay the lawyers to maybe get their money back from The Fiasco" auction/pop-up shop is live! It will run through 9/2 at 8PM CDT! www.32auctions.com/KitRocha2026
You are cordially invited to CHAOS!

WHO: Bree & Donna (and friends)
What: an auction/pop-up shop
where: 32auctions.com/KitRocha2026
when: 8/27 at 10 AM - 9/2 at 8pm
why: let bree & Donna live Buy it Now: limited edition dragons, fidget toys
fancy jewelry, boxes & storage
fantasy themed gifts

Bid on It: AUTOGRAPHED KIT ROCHA BOoks
exclusive owlcrate special editions
be in the murder book
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 26/08/2026
is 80% supposed to be discouraging? or is this to encourage us to raise corporate taxes too?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 19/08/2026
Our team started monitoring the number of people getting loaded on ICE Air flights in November; yesterday we counted our 5,000th. That count doesn’t include children, like Liam, or those who’ve self-deported on their own to avoid shackles, or the thousands loaded before November.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I love my gay hockey romance book author
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/08/2026
I just want to watch TV shows and movies that dare ask the question "what if girls liked each other and also punched hard"
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/08/2026
I want you to understand that they are jumping through all of these hoops to avoid tax bills that are, in many cases, $50 grand. Or $100k. Yes, to normal folks that is all the money in the world. But these people *routinely* spend that on weekend vacations. They would _definitely_ give it at a gala.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
JD Vance calls for Trump to be imprisoned
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hey #NOLAsky please share widely.
Flyer from the Crescent care mid city clinic offering free Mirena IUDs through September 1. Call to schedule 504.821.2601
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...
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This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw
My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...
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Democracy and trains @wingedisis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
And this is why Louisiana stays 51st
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
this is absolutely scorching, but I laughed out loud at "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/07/2026
The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 20/07/2025
While Reacher is obviously Big Man Is Big, having binged the show & discussed it with others, I don't think the folks saying this are ready for the fact that people love Reacher because he would casually throw an abusive shithead misogynist out of a moving car while respecting his female coworkers.
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Ren @renbarletta.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I don't understand why the Terrytown Quail hatching is not bigger news.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/07/2026
The start of the acclaimed Brothers Sinister series - free just about everywhere. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Gover... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: store.koboboo... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #BrothersSinister
Cover for the governess affair by Courtney Milan. A woman in a yellow dress is looking at a flower. Next to this is a banner saying "free."The Brothers Sinister Series: covers for The Governess Affair, The Duchess War, The Heiress Effect, The Countess Conspiracy, and The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Free healthcare would solve so many problems for people in this country. So many.
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