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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Looks like the meeting was a big success. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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At Trump meeting, Xi Jinping lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict
Chinese president’s proposals for lessening tensions come amid period of intense competition between the two countries over AI and trade
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What might Trump be like after the midterms, assuming Democrats regain congressional power? What is the rest of the world order doing while the US furiously follows the whims of its mad king? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Whiplashed middle powers seek new alliances as Trump rages on world stage
While world leaders prepare for annual UN gathering, shifts in the global order continue in the face of a disruptive American president
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Neville Chamberlain was an optimist too. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Denmark and Greenland say US military agreement will not compromise Arctic territory’s sovereignty
Statement sought to clarify Trump’s announcement that US will have ‘permanent control’ over Greenland’s security
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Am I the only one thinking about appeasement now? Thinking about Neville Chamberlain...? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Trump’s attempts to conceal his failures are prolonging a war that the White House seems determined to lose, and that has killed thousands of people across the region.
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What else is the Pentagon hiding from us?
Four more troops have died than Pete Hegseth's DOD has admitted, new reporting reveals.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm still not shopping at Target.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another Trump regime disaster. Aside from enriching Donold and his friends, they can't do anything right. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
US grapples with federal firefighter shortage as crews say they’re spread thin and lack resources during unrelenting year of fire
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the point of freeing yourself from the prison of ego is not getting there you’re not gonna do that. never gonna happen. the point is cultivating a practice of routinely asking “wait, I am too into my own shit here?” in every aspect of your dealings at least once or twice a day. anyhow good morning
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The moral rot that lies at the heart of the Trump administration profoundly corrodes our democracy and the rule of law that sustains it. Recovering from it — if we do recover — will be a long and difficult project." www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/12/w...
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When the government lacks moral authority to lead
A government devoid of moral authority breeds cynicism, disillusionment and distrust. Such a government ruptures the bonds that tie us together. It destroys any sense that government exists for the be...
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Mistakes, mistrust and misdirection: 25 years after 9/11, its dark legacy continues to unfold
The world’s most powerful country responded to the worst terrorist attack in its history by inflicting terror of its own – around the world, and at home
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two years ago I spoke with transit workers about their work in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. “The transit guys spent so much time down there,” former Subways head Joe Hoffman told me. “They got almost no credit.”
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NYC Transit workers’ sacrifice recognized by 9/11 Memorial & Museum, TWU Local 100; ‘A lot of them are still dying’
Two days after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Mario Galvet, an NYC Transit electrical equipment maintainer, stood in what remained of the Cortland St. 1 and 9 subway station, amid the smoldering rubble ...
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/09/2026
“DON’T PANIC,” RIGHT? Fine. Don’t panic. ORGANIZE. 📌 A USPS whistleblower is warning the mail-ballot system could face “catastrophic failure” before the midterms. Make your voting plan now. Vote early, in person, or use a secure drop box. Don’t leave your vote to chance.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ICE has no role in elections. Why are they doing this?
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bill Bramhall in the NY Daily News:
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The civic landscape of a capital, is never just an afterthought. Buildings & monuments make values visible, as philosopher Susan Neiman once put it. For anyone around the globe ever to trust a US government again, Trumpism will need to be thoroughly repudiated. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What should we do with Trump’s monstrous architectural legacy? | Jan-Werner Müller
Questions over Trump’s ballroom and other structures might not feel urgent. But when his reign ends, Trumpism must be repudiated
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...
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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton
Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 31/07/2026
This weekend in Springfield, it's Opening Day for the Women’s Professional Baseball League, the first U.S.-based national pro baseball league for women since 1954. The Sun-Times' Violet Miller spoke to Amira Hondras, one of the players, about what this means for athletes like her.
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Women's pro baseball comes home to Illinois, paving the way for next generation of ballplayers
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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.
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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 30/07/2026
Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump's CDC on vaccine advice, Karen Brown reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
AOC: I believe in guaranteeing health care to every American. I believe in raising the minimum wage. I believe in strong unions. And so, yeah, if a Republican wants to call a stronger union communist, they’re more than welcome to do that. I’m not going to be deterred.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Nobody's talking about it anymore but I have no doubt Social Security will be on the chopping block if the Republicans keep control of Congress after the midterms. The eradication of Social Security is too core a Republican value for them to just kinda forget about it. #SocialSecurity #midterms
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reading and unsurprised. www.ft.com/content/0e56... The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
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The US has collected about $13bn of Venezuela’s oil money. Where is it?
Washington has given diverging accounts of where the earthquake-shattered country’s funds are going
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Trump and the Republicans are rescinding every advance of the civil rights era. apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Still worrying about getting Trumporrhea? Here's some helpful info. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Parasite that caused illnesses in 30 states tied to iceberg lettuce. Here's how the investigation unfolded | CBC News
More than 30 American states have reported illnesses related to Cyclospora, an intestinal parasite that contaminates food that has come into contact with human feces. Here's how the investigation into...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/01/2026
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When California was on fire, Canada sent firefighters. When Canada is on fire, Trump sends extortion.
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The online environments that children are exposed to aren't necessarily the warm & cuddly places that adults know and love so well. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm
The 764 network is just one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is there any way to mute people's Wordle games from my Bluesky feed?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/07/2026
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) long maintained he wasn't impaired during a 2011 crash. But newly obtained toxicology reports reveal he had MDMA and Klonopin in his system. It's part of a 2,000-page trove of records we obtained about Miller, who is currently running for a third term.
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/07/2026
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit for attorneys to uncover the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
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The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
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adhdeedeeramone @adhdeedeeramone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
" Remember ... the far-right kooks are just like the nuts on the left ... but they turn out to vote." - @dicknixon.bsky.social
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Apart from her work with her husband, Mrs. Robinson is a significant psychiatric nurse and teacher of nursing.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress (2025-2026): SpaceX — $589,000 Home Depot — $536,500 Charter (Spectrum) — $407,000 UPS — $353,500 Chevron — $352,500 Walmart — $308,000 Valero — $297,500 New York Life — $295,500 Altria (Marlboro) — $279,000 Aflac — $278,000 (1/3)
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
there's only so much you can do with northern ontario given the size
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Isn't it great to have a President that makes enemies out of our friends, sends his violent troops into America's biggest, most beautiful cities to murder people, sends the costs of fuel and goods soaring while stuffing his pockets with billions in crypto and dark money and never plans to leave?
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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here’s a Site that list the business supporting Ice www.boycottcitizens.org/ice
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ICE Boycott List 2026: Companies to Avoid That Support ICE
Updated 2026 list of companies supporting ICE. Interactive map + sources included. Learn how these banks, tech companies, and other corporations are backing ICE.
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phoenix509.bsky.social @phoenix509.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
💙💙💙NJ Town pulled $91 Million from Citizens Bank ➡️because they fund ICE Detention Centers (aka Camps) Great job for taking a stand against the inhumanity 👏👏
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump should not be giving a national speech Thursday. He should be in prison for attempting a coup after the 2020 election and inciting the Jan 6 terrorist attack.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
Please avoid all salads, including word.
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'll go with logic.. #politics #logic
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LT @route22ny.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Brainworm Kennedy apparently broke the law at Trump's request, interfering with two Iowa election races. apnews.com/article/rfk-...
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Wyden alleges RFK Jr. broke the law in calls urging Libertarians to quit Iowa races
Senator Ron Wyden has accused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of breaking the law by urging third-party candidates to drop out of Iowa congressional races.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
People don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into detention centers. They don't want billions of taxpayer dollars spent on a rogue police state. They want healthcare. They want affordable homes. They want their basic needs met.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump bombed schoolchildren on the first day of the war, Pete.
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