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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wish the 9th Amendment weren't a dead letter, because then US courts could reason like this too

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/09/2026

ShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit that routinely hacks companies to steal their data and threatens to publish it on the dark web if not paid, says that it hacked into the FBI’s jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files.

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FBI investigating hacking group’s claim of massive breach of agent info

ShinyHunters, a cyber-extortion outfit, said that it had hacked into the FBI’s jobs portal and used that access to steal a major tranche of sensitive files.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

tomorrow! Kristian Williams talks about his new book "Policing the Progressive City," about the history of the police in Portland, Oregon. On zoom at 12 noon PST / 3pm EST. Part of the Conversations on Race and Policing series at California State University, San Bernardino www.csusb.edu/event/596138

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In Conversation with Kristian Williams, author of "Policing the Progressive City: Portland, Oregon, From Settlement to Uprising" (AK Press, 2026) | CSUSB

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There are over 4,000 mentions of SPLC informants in the FBI investigative records, and FBI has not yet searched Delta, its records on informants. In other words, FBI relied on them, a lot, and is trying to withhold that information from SPLC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

3. The government has also represented to the defense that it has, for the first time, searched
for the names of the SPLC informants in the Sentinel database for the same time frame of 2007 to
2023 and that the number of hits for those informants ranges from zero to 4,197. The government
does not know, but agreed to take reasonable steps to attempt to determine, how many of the “hits”
are unique hits and the degree, if any, of overlap between the 19,746 hits and the 4,197 hits.
4. During the second meet and confer on September 9, the government disclosed for the first
time that some of the responsive materials the defense is seeking would not be in the Sentinel
database, but rather would be held in a second FBI database called “Delta.” Defense counsel
understands that, broadly speaking, Delta is the FBI’s internal electronic record-keeping system
for confidential human source information or management. Defense counsel also understands that
this database would include exculpatory information about confidential informants. It would also
include communications between the FBI and any informant or confidential human source, as well
as information confirming that some of the SPLC informants were also FBI informants.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Since 9/11 the Supreme Court has heard only three cases concerning free speech and national security, and in each of those cases it weakened the First Amendment. New from me in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The ‘war on terror’ weakened the first amendment. Now we desperately need it | Jameel Jaffer

Over the past quarter-century, the US supreme court has repeatedly failed to protect first amendment rights. We are suffering the consequences

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.

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Tim Goodacre - Writer @timgoodacre.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Here is my first long piece in a long time - "Neoliberalism and the New Fascism." This has been a labour of... not quite love, but necessity for me. It's been a very long time in gestation, pulling together a lot of my thinking over the last 20 years. timgoodacre.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/n...

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Neoliberalism and The New Fascism

Click here to download this article as a pdf Tim Goodacre, Canberra, Jan-Feb 2026 Once Upon a Time The world that we all grew up in is gone. It won’t be back. The shadow of fascism once against rea…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So much truth here! 😢

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Justice Department is pursuing unlawful-entry charges against a person who was caught in a subway station "holding his phone recording and following National Guard members around the station."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

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kate b. @katebitz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

this is a point that i feel a lot of people are missing. “race realism” is based on incredibly shoddy research, much of it financed by groups like the Pioneer Fund, which started out in the 30s by funding the distribution of eugenicist Nazi propaganda in the US

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions.

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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

www.commondreams.org/news/corpora... Researchers found prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients.

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Advocates Call for End of Deadly Tactic Used by For-Profit Health Insurers to Deny Treatment | Common Dreams

The authors of a new report have called prior authorization---which allows insurers to overrule physicians to deny coverage---a "corporate care veto" and found it drains tens of billions of dollars ea...

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is bad, obviously, and one of the worst parts is that redressing it equitably is going to lead to easy-to-defend charges like “see? Everyone does it.”

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

this is very, very bad

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2026

Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump’s war on antifa. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The DOJ was willing to charge a labor leader with a crime, hold it over him for months, & then walk away from it once the charge couldn’t survive scrutiny. That is not how a justice system is supposed to work.

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US justice department dismisses charges against California union leader

David Huerta was arrested while protesting against an ICE operation during crackdown in Los Angeles

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...

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Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch

Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our Hero of the Week: Terry Albury. In 2017 he leaked the Bureau's classified internal rule books to The Intercept and served 4 years in federal prison for it. Terry was nominated by another hero: @rethinkintel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEK... Full conversation in the thread 👇

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Hero of the Week: Terry Albury, FBI Whistleblower Who Leaked the FBI's Secret Rules

YouTube video by Verified Privacy VPN (vp.net)

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In 2002, FBI undercover agent Mike German ( @rethinkintel.bsky.social ), discovered colleagues had run an illegal wiretap and altered records on a terrorism case and reported it. The FBI retaliated, effectively destroying his career. Full conversation in the thread 👇

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/07/2026

"Not only was LA the first testing ground for aggressive federal immigration enforcement, it also has a gruesome history of extreme violence by Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department against both protesters and press," @adamrose.bsky.social says.

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Local Law Enforcement in Los Angeles Emerges Epicenter of Crowd-Control Weapon Misuse, New Report Finds

Law enforcement agencies allegedly misused crowd-control weapons at least 412 times during immigration enforcement protests across the United States between June 2025 and May 2026, according to a r…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've been filming Patriot Front since 2017 when Thomas Rousseau marched into Charlottesville when he and his Vanguard America chanted "blood and soil". Here he is in January at the DC March for Life. They're recruiting and more than tripled their numbers since then.

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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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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If America had a healthy political landscape someone as compromised as @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social wouldn’t be leading the campaign arm of Senate Democrats. Corruption is one of the defining issues of our time & Senate Dems aren’t ready for the moment. This is one of the reasons ↘️

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Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange | Fortune

Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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WIRED @wired.com · 02/06/2026

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...

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The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests

The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ex-FBI agent turned whistleblower Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social joins Hide & Speak this Saturday, May 30 @ 4pm ET to discuss fusion center abuses, the surveillance state & his time undercover in white supremacist groups. DO NOT MISS IT! Link below 👇

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The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Always learning so much from the very best @thelisagraves.bsky.social and this time she has Mike German @rethinkintel.bsky.social of the @brennancenter.org and further fame as a guest ! 🌟 youtu.be/ZheXyrJCMP8

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Supreme Court HIT with BACKLASH at Trump RUNS DESPERATE!!!

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vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Mike German, aka @rethinkintel.bsky.social, the former FBI agent who went undercover with white supremacists and then exposed how fusion centers actually operate joins Hide & Speak this Saturday, 5/30, 4pm ET. Link in thread!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026

Whitehouse: "If you look at all the Court's elections decisions, every one has the effect of helping the GOP. If you look at all their regulatory decisions, every one has the effect of helping the fossil fuel industry that funds the GOP. You can predict with perfect certainty what happens."

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