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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Joey @yneetriht.bsky.social · 22h
I don't even think taxing alone is enough. There's plenty of evidence this was done intentionally, and the most egregious conspirators should actually be punished. This level of greed needs to be de-incentivized at all levels. Morally and politically. So we never end up here again.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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Franken-Pattern @franken-pattern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"... no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors." Then WTF is Kegsbreath doing there?
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Army War Department
ALT: Army War Department
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're announcing the arrest of Suleman Nasimi, a Queens dentist who stole over $300,000 from Medicaid by billing for hundreds of dental procedures he never performed. My office won't tolerate bad actors who put personal greed before patients.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/09/2026
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Period! #FDT #Pinks
Companies with record breaking profits should have employees with record breaking incomes
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This quote is from last February. Good work sir!
"Regulations, basically, should be default gone," Musk said. "Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
CASONE: We surpassed $40 trillion in debt. In any way, shape, or form, is fiscal restraint going to be on the agenda for you and your colleagues? TOM EMMER: Uh, it has been. That will be priority number one when we get through the midterms.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
REP. @AOC: “We the people demand full protected & restored voting rights… guaranteed healthcare for every American as a right and not a privilege… one job with no need for overtime should be enough for our most basic needs…”
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can credit the rise of DSA to a lot of things, but a big part of it is that the org is on the majority side of this morality question and Democratic Party leadership refuses to budge an inch.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on Iran: "We already beat them down with the best military in the world. Now it's time to take their money."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration is recruiting active and retired military lawyers to represent unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation after ending contracts with a network of more than 800 nonprofit and legal aid attorneys. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump fired the attorneys for migrant kids. He’s recruiting military lawyers.
Stripping the contracts of experienced lawyers is dismantling vulnerable children’s safety net, critics say, increasing their chances for deportation.
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Cori Elise @cori-elise.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If George Floyd had done the same thing to Derek Chauvin that Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd, Elon would be leading the march to hang him.
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plindyphotos @plindyphotos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY, huh? What's he going to do, become President?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
WELKER: Do democratic socialists belong in the Dem Party? JEFFRIES: What I can say is I do not support defunding the police, I do not support open borders, I do not support abolishing the Senate. We're focused on actually solving the problems hard-working American taxpayer want us to solve ...
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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So, Rudy, quick question: Did the United States government do anything to help people out during the Depression which might have helped boost their patriotism? And a follow up: Is the current US government offering any similar programs to cope with rising unemployment?
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saku @sakusakus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
no words cover the depth of my loathing for private equity being allowed to buy up vets
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump just gave a massive contract to Our Rescue to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. That's the group that does international anti-sex-trafficking stings, whose founder was dramatized in Sound of Freedom and who left because he himself was accused of sex trafficking his own employees.
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Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids - The American Prospect
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ABOLISH ICE, PROSECUTE THE MFS
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
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Martijon @martijon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A 30 foot wall around Alabama? Wouldn’t that keep out all the Blue state money it takes to survive? By the way, where were you for this interview? At your home in Florida?
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/08/2026
Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
This past May, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air medevac plane took off from Roswell, New Mexico, and headed west to the town of Ruidoso to pick up a patient. It shouldn’t have been a challenging flight for the two pilots and two nurses aboard. The temperature was 69 degrees; the sky was clear. The 60-mile journey normally takes a half hour, at most.

But once airborne, the plane ran into trouble. At the White Sands Missile Range that night, US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots—and anyone else within hundreds of miles—unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed into the side of a mountain. There were no survivors.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
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73overlander.bsky.social @73overlander.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
No president has ever talked more shit about America.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports. If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it? 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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sure did! 😬
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
New court filings detail immigration agents in Los Angeles referring to potential targets using racial slurs.
Civil rights groups are asking a federal judge to bar an “ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory” stops in the Central District of California.
Immigration agents who descended on Los Angeles last summer referred to Latinos using slurs like “tonk” and “wet,” according to body camera footage and text messages detailed in a court filing asking a federal judge to bar agents from making stops based on racial profiling.

After a June raid at Home Depot in Hollywood, body camera footage captured an agent saying: “There was a guy, I’m pretty sure he’s wet he was just sitting in that minivan.” A text chain revealed an agent referring to “tonks everywhere selling food” — using a word reportedly derived from the sound an agent’s utility flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head. In a video, an agent said, “Yeah, just plug us in wherever you see some tonks and we’ll jump out.”
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For anyone who needs encouragement this is precisely how to fight fascism! #SheShed #ImpeachIndictRemove
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The GOP only hires the worst of people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026
Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
WARREN: Do you still work for Capital One today? JOHNSON: I do. I'm here today in my personal capacity W: Ok. But they're paying you to get confirmed for this job. I also understand they're letting you keep a bonus you haven't yet earned. They must be really excited about getting you confirmed.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 23/07/2026
Mitch McConnell would have replaced Mitch McConnell a month ago. Why can’t the Dems get their shit together?
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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 23/07/2026
Love the brimming confidence of all these robot demonstrations where the company has a guy with a tarp to throw over the corpse when it inevitably eats shit onstage.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Really think that Gov of Kentucky needs to demand answers or declare the seat vacant
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Voted NO on the $1 trillion Pentagon budget. We have a moral responsibility to stop writing blank checks for endless wars and invest in our communities. My statement with @pocan.house.gov. 🧵
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Is someone working on a law that allows Dems to strip every judge who refuses to acknowledge the election results of their lifetime appointment?
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