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“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people“ Declaration of Independence “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress” Frederick Douglass

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rostapher16.bsky.social @rostapher16.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Massive Corruption *shrug* Attacking Democracy *huh?* War Crimes *crickets* Concentration Camps *blank looks* Measles & Explosive Diarrhea *freedom* High Gas Prices: HOW DARE YOU MAKE MY GAS COST MORE! GAS IS EVERYTHING TO ME BUT MUST ALSO BE ABSURDLY CHEAP! THIS IS THE WORST THING EVER! RAGE!!! 😡 🤬
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Meet LA's very first speed camera, now installed outside Kingsley Elementary in East Hollywood. 125 cameras will go up over the next month, mostly near schools. No citations issued until 2027. Here's where you can check the location and status of all the cameras: ladot.lacity.gov/speed-safety...
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rostapher16.bsky.social @rostapher16.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Haul Stuff Olympics: transporting a large bike parts order via bike! #cargobike #Tern
Gray Tern Quick Haul cargo bike carrying 2 cardboard boxes
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Jos Olivier @josolivier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds. Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
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Bryn Nelson @seattlebryn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Huh. Go figure: adequately staffing the IRS seems to correlate with an increased ability to collect the taxes that run the government.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 26/08/2026
I've added a new interactive warming map to my Climate Dashboard, powered by the Berkeley Earth high-res (~25 km resolution) dataset. Click anywhere on the planet to see how temperatures have changed since 1850, and download data for that location in csv form: dashboard.theclimatebrink.com#map
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” – Union of Concerned Scientists.

Background image is a highway jammed with car congestion, and good luck, thanks to car dependency by design.

Tag line at the bottom says “Their profit, your cost.” All via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth @UCS.org
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 04/08/2026
The #ClimateChange crisis is also a #PublicHealth crisis. Warming temperatures affect health on a global scale. #MedSky
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Princeton greenwashed fossil fuels and essentially lied about carbon capture in return for cash from BP. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
propublica.org
How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social
On the left, a line graph showing a flat trajectory of actual carbon capture and storage contrasted with optimistic projections of it taking off into the future. On the right, a line graph showing actual solar electricity production skyrocketing ahead of all projections.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?
The latest on energy, climate and affordability
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not just the mega-rich: "The most destructive forms of consumption were linked to two main areas: food – particularly red meat, a primary driver of deforestation – and energy, including flights and heating & cooling homes, which typically rely on burning of fossil fuels, such as gas, oil & coal."
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."
theguardian.com
The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
inquirer.com
The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns | Will Bunch
The tangled web between Trump’s stock purchases, his policies, and blatant promotion is a new low for a corrupt regime.
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David SamSin 🌱 @davsamsin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
bsky.app/profile/davs...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social
theconversation.com
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If you’re a follower of mine in the United States, please take a look at the post below, and please consider sharing it. I presume it WON’T be covered in American media.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“In Toderian’s view, the dividing line between cities that succeed and those that stagnate isn’t geography, wealth or even size—it’s mindset. Some places embrace experimentation, risk…Others default to caution, delay, and a reflexive belief that change is impossible.” momentummag.com/urban-truth-...
“We could never do THAT in OUR city.”


Leadership doesn’t make excuses.

Via the Urban Truth Collective

Background photo of people walking along a pedestrian street and people-place successful and vibrant in Central Montreal. A street transformation that took community leadership, energy and action, and a spirit of experimentation, rather than excuses or risk-aversion.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
MEDIA RELEASE: “The 1-Hour City Conspiracy.” If you are traditional or new media and would like to write, talk, or post about the REAL conspiracy in cities, read our media release, and send us a DM for more information. It’s already making BIG waves! And allies, please help share this. #UrbanTruth
Media release from the Urban Truth Collective on the #1HourCityConspiracy.

“The campaign exposes the truth about those lies, while revealing that the real evidence-supported conspiracy, involving many of the same well-financed actors, is the one that’s created the one hour city. Rather than having life‘s essentials close by, in this one hour city, private sector lobbying and marketing over many decades has led to government decisions that separate and spread our communities out…”
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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New from me: www.governing.com/urban/parkin... We’ve seen more progress on parking reform than I ever imagined. And yet, some of the places that could benefit from it the most (eh hem, NYC) are still hanging on to parking mandates.
governing.com
Parking Reform Is Reshaping Housing Policy
But some cities with the best opportunity are leaving it on the table.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026
Most of the social programs that are routinely dismissed in American politics as "unrealistic" or "too expensive" could have been paid for multiple times over by the cost of this war so far, much less the costs to come. It's never the money.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
"By the way, here’s the breaking news for some folks. They didn’t levitate there or get transported by the moon fairy." --Dr. Marshall Shepherd Discussing reflectors left on the moon for laser studies ongoing today www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
forbes.com
Artemis II, Hollywood And Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
The Artemis II mission to the moon will likely stir conspiracy theories about lunar landings. A compelling piece of evidence is often overlooked.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health: Cuts: NIH -$5.8 billion NASA -$5.6 billion NSF -$4.8 billion EPA -$4.6 billion CDC -$2.9 billion NOAA -$1.6 billion It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Did you know, beef has the highest emissions per kilogram compared to any other protein rich food? #animalagriculture
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s peak strawberry season in Oxnard. 16 weeks of hard work to save up for the off season. “Itzel” says, "I only have small bites for lunch. If I eat too much, I get nauseous when I need to run fast to make as many boxes as possible so I can earn as much as possible." #WeFeedYou
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 01/04/2026
Peter Gleick: “This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen."
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Postcard from a series called "The Young Girls Mobilized" ca. 1914-1918
Illustration featuring a young woman or girl riding a bicycle heavily laden with newspapers. There's another female behind her doing something with a wall. Text: A L'Information (News). The illustration is signed, but I can't read it.
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Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Nature is amazing, it just keeps the surprises coming! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfW...
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Flying Penguins - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
To find your local No Kings march, go to: www.nokings.org
nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels
EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/03/2026
Pedro Sánchez #@sanchezcastejon •5h X
The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world's problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR.
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rostapher16.bsky.social @rostapher16.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Horrible, awful people are in control. Biggest protest yet on March 28. They must be removed.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/03/2026
40% of US rail freight is also fossil fuels, mostly coal. Wind coal down and you free up a lot of rail resources! Some of which could be converted to fast electric passenger trains, which in countries with modern transport infrastructure are faster than air travel for most trips under 1000 miles.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Suburban Sprawl may seem cheap, but even the costs we CAN count are far too high, and we ALL pay them. HT Smart Prosperity Institute #UrbanTruth institute.smartprosperity.ca/library/publ...
Graphic showing all the many costs of suburban brawl, explaining how many costs are hidden and indirect costs, and sharing stats and data. Prepared by the Sustainable Prosperity Institute.
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I don’t know. If it looks like a 🦆, swims like a 🦆, and quacks like a 🦆, then it probably is a 🦆ing concentration camp.
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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Half of our agricultural land is used for beef that provides 3% of our calories. Nobody likes it when I bang my spoon on my high chair about this but eventually we need to grapple with it.
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amb @amb.fyi · 18/02/2026
the rest of our lives we are going to just uncover more and more unfathomable horrors undertaken by this hideous fascist government and i don’t know how we’ll ever forgive ourselves for not doing more to stop it. May we all stretch and rise to the moment
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 13/02/2026
As expected, in the final rule, EPA's Endangerment Finding repeal backs down entirely from challenging the science, choosing to focus on statutory arguments regarding EPA's authority. Good work, everyone who contributed to the @andrewdessler.com review!
The EPA has considered these comments and, in this final action, is not  finalizing the alternative climate science rationale and is not finalizing new findings by  the Administrator with respect to global climate change concerns under CAA section  202(a)(1). The EPA does not rely on any specific critique of climate science as a  necessary justification for this action. Given our conclusion that we lack legal authority to  regulate in response to global climate change concerns under CAA section 202(a)(1), it  would be unnecessary and inappropriate to resolve such questions in this regulatory  context. The EPA includes this section to summarize major scientific themes commenters  raised and to acknowledge that scientific research and debate about climate change will  continue. This discussion does not endorse or reject any particular assessment, study, or  comment letter in the docket with respect to assertions regarding global climate change  science and has limited its responses to the bases being finalized in this final action. The  EPA’s conclusion in this final action is limited to the legal determination that CAA section 202(a) does not provide the authority to regulate GHG emissions from new motor  vehicles or new motor vehicle engines for the purpose of addressing global climate  change concerns, irrespective of how ongoing scientific debates are ultimately resolved.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933" degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
From @michaelemann.bsky.social in today's @sfchronicle.com: On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its “endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health. The latest actions will be costlier for Americans, rather than saving money.
sfchronicle.com
Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency reversed its “endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We're living a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us. Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout
CALL YOUR SENATORS.

TELL THEM DON'T FUND ICE'S TERROR CAMPIAGN

Funding Expires Midnight Feb. 13th.

#ICEout
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Climate Crisis Info (from Bryan Godbe) @bryangodbe.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, triggering climate tipping points, and a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops, lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
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25. This Cibola jail was horrible. It was cramped. I was chained up again.
The officers mocked
me and called me their enemy. They laughed at me. I was kept at the jail for what felt like around three hours. I wasn't given an explanation for why I was there.
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guards then put me on a bus. I think it was around January 27.
No one said
anything about where I was going. I was handcuffed. It felt like the middle of the night. It was freezing cold in the bus because the driver had the AC on. We had no jackets. The bus eventually took me back to El Paso in the carly morning of Tuesday, January 27th.
27. I was put in a cold cell where I had to sleep on the bare cement floor. Around 10 in the morning my cellmate asked to speak to an ICE officer. Three officers came into the cell so I had a chance to speak to them too. One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." She told me that if I fought my case, I would spend two to three more months here in El Paso. She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota. If I hadn't managed to talk to my attorney who told me a while back that I was ordered released. I might have given up at this point and signed the self-deportation forms because the conditions were so unbearable.
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30. When I was taken back to the detention center from the airport, after missing the flight, I overheard an ICE officer saying in English, "the judge in Minnesota wants this one back." I was put in a cold jail cell again until early next morning (January 28). But again no one had told me directly that a judge had ordered my release
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32. When I arrived in Minneapolis, I was handed off to ICE
… I had to sign lots of papers saying that I wasn't going to be a part of any "groups." I didn't know what they meant by "groups." They never told me why I was detained
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
NEW: 150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse. Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere. This evening, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
150 days of Kavanaugh stops, and it just keeps getting worse
Kavanaugh stops would always be bad. As a tool in the Trump administration's authoritarianism arsenal, they are worse. The consequences are everywhere.
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