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Staying politically informed and active in the Hudson River communities of southern Westchester, NY.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"If detainees need more hygiene items on days when they do not shower, they must request them, and staff supervise their use. "If a detainee requests toothpaste, a staff member applies it to his toothbrush."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.
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Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Salary of executive assistant Natalie Harp: $150,000 a year. Average salary of a sailor on the USS Lincoln: ~ $50,000 a year.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/08/2026
In Feb, an ICE agent directed Emilio, a Deaf man, to get onto a bus. He asked for a sign language interpreter and told me he didn’t get one. It was not until later that Emilio realized that he was not being deported to his home country; instead, he was entering a country where he had never lived.
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How Trump’s deportation machine deprives Deaf people of their humanity
An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm sorry. "ICE facility for kids" should be where this loses everyone. WTF, America?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/07/2026
Make no mistake: the Trump administration is coming for abortion access every chance it gets.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The safest communities are the ones with the most resources. Not the ones with the most ICE agents shooting people. Terror is not public safety.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
Strange. I rarely hear the news talking about fascism or kleptocracy, the real threats we’re currently facing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s son sentenced to four years in jail for seeking US interference in father’s Brazil coup trial
Brazil supreme court finds that Eduardo Bolsonaro – who resides in the US - tried to get sanctions put on judges trying ex-president over coup plot
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States
Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
omg ffs we just want healthcare
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire did this
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/06/2026
Now that Platner has won the primary, I want to be clear. When I said “vote blue no matter who” in 2016, 2020, and 2024, I meant it. I’m worried about Platner, but if you say “vote blue no matter who” in Maine, I hope you’ll extend the same courtesy to other Dems. I hope we beat Collins.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“.. The drawdown we’ve seen in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the past 4 weeks is the most extreme in history.” - Schwab ⛽️
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ordinarily I would be very reluctant to directly blame any President, of either party, for inflation. It normally doesn’t work like that. But in this case, there are two very specific policies that fueled inflation - tariffs and the Iran war - that happened expressly at the President’s direction.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/06/2026
i think it is really great that the civil rights division is now dedicated to rooting out any attempt to do outreach to nonwhites in education www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Facing Federal Investigation
The Justice Department is investigating a program at City University of New York that offers support for men from underrepresented backgrounds for alleged racial discrimination.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Crazy left-wing Democratic candidate: What if we just gave everyone health coverage? Crazy right-wing Republican candidate: I killed a man when I was seven years old, and don't ask me how many other people I've killed because I won't tell you www.mediaite.com/politics/gop...
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GOP Gubernatorial Frontrunner Claims He Killed a Man At Age 7 — Won’t Say How Many People He’s Killed in Bonkers Interview
"I mean, it could be self-defense, it can be justified, but it's still weighty. So I'm just asking you — how many people have you killed?”
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Anyway please donate to your local station. For real.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 15/05/2026
Surely the headline of the week: "Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser." www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...
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Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser | CNN Politics
As the Trump administration sought to reassure Americans this week that a potential hantavirus outbreak posed little risk to the public, Dr. Brian Christine, one of the top public health officials in ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...
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Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The New York Times treats Republican lawmakers like hapless bystanders rather than willing co-conspirators in the illegal war with Iran.
Republicans Waited to Challenge Trump on the Iran War. Now It May Be Too Late.
Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...
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For La.’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black voting struggle is a fight to breathe | Will Bunch
For disadvantaged Black residents of the most heavily polluted region in America, racial redistricting is a life-or-death matter.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is mass political violence. “More than 10,000 times, judges have said those detentions, typically carried out with no opportunity for detainees to plead their case, were illegal. That’s roughly 90 percent of all cases — a staggering rejection of a core piece of Trump’s immigration agenda.”
politico.com
Trump emboldened ICE. Judges have ruled against it over 10,000 times.
A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked up while they face dep...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/05/2026
They’re against diversity. And they want Black people grouped together in one part of town, until it comes to our voting power. We see you.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 08/05/2026
What good is democracy if you can't choose the voters?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months
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Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months
The Guardian analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025, as advocates say the family-separation crisis will lead to generational trauma After three months in immigration detention, 1,500 miles (2,400km) away from her 13-month-old daughter, LT was running out of options. Her baby, who was allergic to formula and had other food sensitivities, had been vomiting constantly and needed breastmilk. But the government refused to release LT – an asylum seeker from Haiti – on bond. So, the family’s pediatrician petitioned the government to allow her to pump and mail her breastmilk from the Dilley detention center in Texas to her baby in Florida. That request was denied. During the first seven months of 2025, the administration arrested 18,400 parents – including 15,000 fathers and 3,000 mothers. They are the parents of 27,000 to 32,000 children. The administration arrested the parents of at least 12,000 US citizen children. Nearly 7,500 fathers and 1,000 mothers who were arrested had a different nationality than at least one of their children. In about half of these families, siblings had different citizenships from each other. On average, the Trump administration has been arresting about 2,300 parents each month and deporting 1,400 parents every month. The Biden administration, in comparison, deported about 700 per month in 2024. Continue reading...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Trumpism's attack on Smith College is alarming not only for its expansion to admissions for trans students but for its focus--first time?--not on a university but a small college. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women
Civil rights inquiry claims policy may breach Title IX as administration escalates attacks on trans rights
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Also read @ryanlcooper.com on the need for Dems to maximize redistricting before the GOP locks in one-party rule in the House. Discusses our reporting on this: zeteo.com/p/supreme-co...
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Memo to Dems: Fight Fire With Fire!
With the rightwing Supreme Court attacking the right to vote yet again, it's past time for Democrats to fully retaliate on gerrymandering. Unleash the 'baconmanders,' writes our columnist Ryan Cooper.
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LaneyVotesBlue @laneyvotesblue.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The ignorance of the people who vote for these criminals is why we are where we are. Good morning everyone. ☕️☕️☕️
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026
The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis
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Rivertowns Vote @rivertownsvote.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
40 of them!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.
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ICE deported man to Mexico who says he’s a U.S. citizen
Brian José Morales García has a birth certificate showing he was born in Denver. ICE agents accused him of lying and says he entered the country illegally.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media. Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.” Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants. He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I dont't think you can separate the post-2012 racial gap in voter turnout from the GOP's sustained push for voter ID and general focus on faux "ballot security" policies
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 17/04/2026
Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days. austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...
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Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026
Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt, a 27-year-old man from Cuba, died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Orban defeat was legitimately "too big to rig," as Trump falsely says about 2024. Trump won a historically narrow victory in an unrigged election. The popular majority against Orban had to overcome *actual* rigging. There's an opening here for Dems. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2090...
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