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nomadRuss

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Formerly citizen at large in the wild spaces of the U.S.A. and now a full-time Mainer. Author. www.russlinton.com

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 16h
The Constitution bans religious tests for public office. A “biblical worldview” test for SCOTUS nominees is Christian nationalism. Justices should interpret the Constitution, not impose ancient religious mythology on the rest of us.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
ICYMI - Israel’s UN ambassador whines about… children’s drawings
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 4h
Global Darwin event ongoing. Vaccines, unpasteurized milk, AI grifting, planetary destruction, performative politics dragging us toward collapse...
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 9h
This is the kind of governance we get when electeds work for "likes and subscribes" and not the people. Performative politics is a cancer. The left does it too. Peddling on our real outrage about this horror show administration instead of actively doing their duty. #ImpeachConvictRemove
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 10h
Not so "mind boggling..."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 22h
Jesus Christ dude
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 29/09/2026
"Don't ever get immune to the inhumanity and dehumanization of what the Trump/Miller project is doing to children and families."
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deportations are a violation of due process for these vulnerable children. #StopDeportingChildren
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NPR @npr.org · 19h
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. n.pr/46QIOFc
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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 20h
We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 23h
Turning cameras off then opening fire on unarmed civilians ought to get people more riled up than it is...
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 29/09/2026
"This might destroy humanity so give us more money" describes the pervasive nihilism of this moment. www.axios.com/2026/09/29/w...
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The AI industry's contradictions take center stage in Washington, Silicon Valley
All eyes are on Washington AI meeting as OpenAI prepares to release new products.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 29/09/2026
AI is not superintelligence. It's a Darwin event for humanity to cull the terminably griftable. If you are someone still okay with trusting Zuckerberg and these out of control billionaires with your privacy, you may not survive this. www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-fa...
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A YouTuber says Meta's Muse gave his address to a Facebook Marketplace buyer: 'A guy just showed up'
A Meta staffer said that in similar cases it investigated, Muse was "following direct instructions and correctly asked for permission."
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watch my conversation live now with @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/UUPCTaN...
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Community Conversation w/ Troy Jackson and Heather Cox Richardson | Solidarity Forever Tour
YouTube video by Troy Jackson for Maine
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
It's been 155 days since Trump said Iran's oil infrastructure would spontaneously explode in 3 days due to the U.S. blockade
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026
There’s no scientific basis to many of the public health concerns some critics have with solar development, an expert told ProPublica. “People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons.” (Published April)
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Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash
Across the U.S., critics are pressuring public officials to stop or stall new solar projects, often citing unfounded health concerns.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m pissed off, and I’m going to fight to put an end to this madness when I reach the Senate.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 28/09/2026
Interest rates skyrocketing and diesel prices (plus fertilizer and other inputs) just bankrupted family farms across the country.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 28/09/2026
Another company to boycott. (Fuel prices are likely to drive them out of business anyway as they push those expenses onto their drivers and make each delivery even more unprofitable. But still, BOYCOTT THEM.)
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse. n.pr/4AC1wxU
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'End Times Fascism' looks at supremacist groups uniting around end-of-the-world ideas
Authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor identify supremacists that have, despite ideological differences, converged around the conviction that they are part of an elite destined to survive an apocalypse.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 28/09/2026
Trying to fabricate their claims about rigged elections by terrorizing people who were victims of administrative blunders. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Adamson said she wasn't offered water until around the five-hour mark of her detainment, and no one asked whether she needed to use the bathroom.” CBP is interrogating more and more travelers, claiming they're attempting to vote illegally. Fascists love to scapegoat. #USDemocracy #MomSky #CdnPoli
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🙏💔💔💔💔🕯️🕯️
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lotta talk right now about the President using public money to push political propaganda. It didn't start with these TV ads. Let me remind you of the political nonsense he forced the Census Bureau to publish: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-to-fak...
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Who Put the Census Bureau in the Propaganda Business?
A once-trusted agency has dressed up partisan election claims as official statistics—and hidden the evidence needed to test them.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 28/09/2026
Thia is a hate crime not law enforcement.
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 28/09/2026
Dismantle ICE and jail every last one of these terrorists. This man was a legal resident detained and abused for 15 hours. He's suing but the "agents" who kidnapped him need to be prosecuted. substack.com/@mainenewsro...
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Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz — the UMaine alum civil engineer taken from his car in Portland during the ICE surge — reveals stunning details in lawsuit against the agents that took him
One of the Mainers taken by ICE during the surge in January filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the agents that took him and you have to hear the details.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Podcaster and author David Pakman joins me to discuss how algorithms control what you see and why the next influencer in your feed might not be a real person at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoY...
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Why the Algorithm Favors Right Wing Content with David Pakman
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 27/09/2026
Not an option, a duty. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Ca...
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Xeno and his Iridescent Ibex @xeno-t.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey Illinois, Your Senator @duckworth.senate.gov believes in "Don't be impeaching anybody" while this shit goes on in your state.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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nomadRuss @russlinton.com · 26/09/2026
US power "depends entirely on the world’s willingness to hold its debt, obey its intellectual property laws, prop up its purchasing power, staff its universities and research institutions, and overlook its international crimes, such a complete loss of allies is an existential failure."
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"i think anyone with a soul is losing their fuckin minds right now" (the letters "uc" in "fuckin" are slightly blurred/censored)
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Gerald Weinand @dirigoblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Guardian has this www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... #Maine #MePolitics
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‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada
President’s tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada – will Mainers show their displeasure in the midterms?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. (Published May with @azluminaria.org)
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This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...
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further @gofurther.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
deflock.org
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DeFlock
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Worth watching the whole eight minutes but the spiciest bit starts at 5:22 culminating in the key question her camp can't get their story straight about: "How did Susan Collins know that this guy made this [super PAC] donation thru a shell company that was supposed to be anonymous?" #MEpolitics
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jack Smith gets what he’s been seeking.. a public hearing to answer questions about his criminal case against Trump. Tuesday. At the US Senate
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