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Hi😊 I'm Sapph. I love to read, play video games, write, garden, do embroidery, cook and bake and explore nature. I'm obsessed with learning. I block every AI user. Democratic, feminist, 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. I'm shy so I'll mostly be lurking.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration has dramatically ramped up the sale of America’s federally protected wild horses, and a NYT investigation found that some are ending up in the slaughter pipeline. The BLM rounds up wild mustangs from public lands and places them up for adoption or sale.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/08/2026
Worth a listen. “If I was gonna stage a coup in 2028…”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/08/2026
Flock is feeling the pressure and now claims to be implementing changes to increase oversight of their mass surveillance network. We aren't buying it. More oversight won't solve the issue. Automatic license plate readers must be out of our communities for good.
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Flock's Cameras Remain Civil Liberties Threat Despite Updates
ACLU responds to surveillance company Flock's announcement of changes to license plate reader system.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
America’s commitment to defending South Korea and maintaining stability in the region. And the timing could hardly be worse. With the United States already stretched by the war with Iran, creating uncertainty among allies in Asia only makes America more vulnerable.
theguardian.com
Trump orders cuts to South Korea joint drills despite warnings about Kim regime
President says he ‘gets along great’ with dictator but officials say Ukraine war is boosting North’s capabilities
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/08/2026
SHOCK REPORT: Desperate sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have tried to jump overboard amid an extended Middle East deployment, as families sound the alarm over severe mental health struggles, exhaustion, food shortages, water contamination, deteriorating conditions, + more, per Military Times.
militarytimes.com
Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Washington Post has a scoop alleging that the CIA was behind the sinking of an Ecuadorian fishing boat and the bombing of two others. The men who attacked them spoke English, a surveillance plane was owned by company registered in Virginia, and Salvadorans said it was "the Americans."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🧊✈️ BLESS HER HEART 🤠 🚌 A prison bus guard for La Salle Corrections waves to ICE flight observers Thursday, after delivering chained humans for air transport from Love Field in Dallas 👀
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
This is really creepy: giant companies could be charging you higher prices based on data they have on you (like your browsing history). It's called "surveillance pricing." Just so you know, Donald Trump shut down the investigation into this scam.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/08/2026
BREAKING: ICE charter Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a massive contract to operate DHS's "deportation fleet." gillianbrockell.com/breaking-eas...
gillianbrockell.com
BREAKING: Eastern Airlines gets contract to fly DHS 'deportation fleet'
Eastern Air Express, a subsidiary of ICE charter airline Eastern Airlines, has been awarded a contract to operate a fleet of Boeing 737 jets acquired by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct ...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This left wing crackdown on free speech is getting out of control www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 13/08/2026
Reports that the CIA bombed multiple civilian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year, amidst the U.S. military’s ongoing campaign of lethal boat strikes, are incredibly disturbing. Congress must hold the Trump administration accountable for these illegal and immoral killings.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Zohran Mamdani is backing a bill to hold Amazon accountable for exploiting delivery drivers. Now Amazon is launching a $5M lobbying blitz — led by Chuck Schumer's daughter — to crush it. Instead of spending millions on lobbying, Amazon should pay and treat its drivers fairly.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/08/2026
Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk reut.rs/4fO6aR6
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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk
Taylor Farms on Sunday said it was recalling more than ​a dozen prepared food items containing jalapeños, including ‌salsas and guacamole, from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I hope they all get eaten by polar bears good luck assholes
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/08/2026
The Senate is considering a bill that would empower the federal government to spy on customers at retail locations across the country. This isn’t about countering theft, it’s about getting our data and aiding the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Tell your Senators to vote NO.
action.aclu.org
Don't Give DHS More Power to Spy on Us
Congress is trying to give DHS and ICE more power to spy on us, all disguised as a "shoplifting" bill: CORCA would let federal agencies track anyone shopping at stores in our neighborhoods. Mass surveillance does not keep us safe. Stop CORCA now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
robertreich.substack.com
The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you’re a victim of crime in DC, you might be relying on a newly hired ICE attorney, whose experience is in deportation proceedings and who doesn’t know criminal or DC law, to get justice for you.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 07/08/2026
Before July 21 the response to the Trump administration's anti-trans gun rule was overwhelmingly negative. Almost overnight it changed. But 96 percent of influx of comments supporting the rule appear to come from bots. New EXCLUSIVE investigation by Io Dodds. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Swarm of bots post astroturf campaign in support of ATF’s anti-trans gun rule - Assigned Media
An ATF proposal to curb trans gun rights got thousands of supportive comments. 96 percent of them appear fake.
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Chris B-Eeeeek!-ler 👻 @cwbuecheler.com · 06/08/2026
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: Companies affiliated with Donald Trump's sons have won over $3 BILLION in government contracts. @robertgarcia.house.gov and I are pushing for an investigation.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Democrats: You pay taxes. We spend the money on you Republicans: You pay taxes, we spend the money on tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate subsidies This is how wealth is transferred from us to them. The same is true for tariffs. We pay the higher prices, but the corporations get the refunds.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
muellershewrote.com
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.
Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/08/2026
The Senate is considering a bill that would empower the federal government to spy on customers at retail locations across the country. This isn’t about countering theft, it’s about getting our data and aiding the Trump administration’s deportation campaign. Tell your Senators to vote NO.
action.aclu.org
Don't Give DHS More Power to Spy on Us
Congress is trying to give DHS and ICE more power to spy on us, all disguised as a "shoplifting" bill: CORCA would let federal agencies track anyone shopping at stores in our neighborhoods. Mass surveillance does not keep us safe. Stop CORCA now.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What this means is that Trump has stolen an estimated $100mm from US taxpayers by avoiding the pending audit of his filed returns. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Blanche Strikes Deal With GOP Holdouts to Advance His Nomination
Holdout Republican senators are backing a deal with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to formally rescind an order creating an “anti-weaponization fund” that could have paid $1.8 billion to Preside...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
www.nbcnews.com/world/africa...
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo accelerates as health officials say Trump and Elon Musk’s aid cuts hamper response
Key supplies, equipment and operational support are no longer reaching responders at the scale needed, they said.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Surveillance camera images show Michel sitting on a bus shelter bench “in daylight at first on 1 March, with a small, pale bag of belongings, still sitting there in darkness that evening, then slumped half upright on the ground and eventually lying on the ground the following morning.”
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 03/08/2026
People are skipping heart tests, delaying surgeries, and showing up uninsured in emergency rooms because Republicans decided it was a good idea to make health coverage EVEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE.
nytimes.com
Uninsured Patients Rise Sharply, Hospitals Report, Citing Obamacare Cuts
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 03/08/2026
A 50-year old book reveals the tendencies that undermine military competence—a century ago and today. Read our analysis for free:
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The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/08/2026
I think we can say this is the spiritual opposite of Biden’s loan forgiveness program, which targeted public service degrees for debt relief. I don’t think he needs much defending, but the way people blamed him for SCOTUS and the GOP stonewalling debt relief was a real low point in our politics.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 03/08/2026
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
theguardian.com
‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/08/2026
Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...
tucson.com
Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation
A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
axios.com
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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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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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As of December 2025, USPS now postmarks letters & packages on the date they are processed at a postal facility, not when they’re picked up from a mailbox. This affects anyone sending time-sensitive mail, and especially: it will be absolutely consequential for elections.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Alex Pettis’ mom’s message. 💚 We can’t believe it’s already been six months.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who assassinated Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, just got sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years. He will die in prison.
meidasnews.com
Man Who Killed Dem Lawmaker and Her Husband Sentenced to Two Life Terms Plus 40 Years
A federal judge said it was the longest sentence he's ever handed down, for a man who posed as a police officer to gun down elected officials in their own homes.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23/07/2026
A few giant corporations dominate the American seed industry. They abuse the patent system and drive up prices for farmers and for families buying dinner. I've got a bill to crack down on big agriculture and lower food costs across the country. Let's get it done.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is crazy to be happening in 2026. The US has now recorded more measles cases this year than in any year since 1991, marking the highest total in 35 years. As of today, the country had reported 2,295 confirmed measles cases, according to the Johns Hopkins University U.S. Measles Tracker.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEW: Daniel Siad, the primary modeling scout and recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein, has been discovered dead in his home in Paris. Siad, himself, was also accused of raping young women. I’m gathering the latest and will report on my YouTube channel, Katie Phang News.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What could go wrong? Gift link below. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/u...
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Donald Trump just approved a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, including uranium enrichment. Israel is furious. A nuclear-armed state lecturing others on nuclear proliferation. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Well, this adds up. No wonder she’s always “concerned.” Financial disclosure records show that Susan Collins received campaign contributions from men whose names have appeared in the Epstein files!
meidasnews.com
More Donations from Epstein Contacts to Susan Collins Uncovered
Collins took money from men on the Epstein list before voting against releasing the files
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Protester sues Los Angeles cops over shot to head with projectile. "James DeSimone Law represents Daisy Ureno, who the firm says was struck while sitting in a public seating area outside L.A. City Hall. The shot... rendered her unconscious & caused head trauma." davisvanguard.org/2026/07/lapd...
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LAPD Sued for Excessive Force after Protester Shot in Head at Anti-ICE Rally - Davis Vanguard
A lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department alleges officers utilized excessive force, striking a 'No Kings' protester in the head with a less-lethal round during a 2025 demonstration ta...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/07/2026
Happening now in Chicago: community members and activists are in the La Villita/Little Village neighborhood to demonstrate against continued ICE violence in across the country. In just the last two weeks, ICE agents have killed 2 men. A 3rd died running from agents, and a 4th died in ICE custody.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Limited visa stays will be brought from five years to 240 days for foreign reporters, foreign students, and exchange visitors (and 90 days for those from China). Cutting off exchange of ideas, press & expression. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump administration drastically cuts length of foreign journalist visas
Visas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days
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