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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ok so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
rapid response groups are reporting at least two ice abductions in chicago already this morning: one in avondale at diversey/pulaski (pictured below) and one in humboldt park at kolmar/grand.
two agents in green pants, black t shirts, and green vests that say “police” stand in the street at the driver’s side of a grey suv. two black suvs with flashing lights have boxed in the grey suv.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
So there's a really important debate on civil liberties and national security going on on the House floor right now. It is shameful that it's taking place at this late hour of the night / morning. But I'm going to at least do something productive & try to explain here:
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
There it is—Dated Brent (i.e., spot) crude hits $144.46/bbl, a new all-time high.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
/2 The motion reads as if it were drafted by a generative AI fed on Trump Truth Social posts and the NY Post. I genuinely lack the power of expression to say how bad it is. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#01208837520 in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS (D.C. Cir., 26-5101) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION [2167119] to stay underlying order pending appeal filed by Jessica Bowron, Douglas Burgum, DOI, Robert Downing, Executive Office of the President, GSA, NPS, Office of the Executive Re...
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:
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Queerhawk 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱 @alwaysadorecats.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
For one, the name “TrackAIPAC” would make you think they’re tracking AIPAC donations, but instead they’re tracking donations from other Jewish groups - even ones opposed to AIPAC! - and lumping them under the label of “AIPAC” It’s using “AIPAC” as a boogeyman the way Republicans use “Soros”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Get a grip. He is a known quantity, a strong progressive, incredibly deeply networked in his community. These are admirable qualities and hard to achieve if you’re using your position to prey on women. He did it the long, hard way - no family name or wealth, just public service.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I can’t know anyone’s heart but part of the appeal of voting for someone who has DONE THE WORK is that you usually know what you’re getting. There are exceptions, but a long record and an obvious commitment to laboring out of the spotlight are highly desirable qualities in a public servant.
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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
An edited text meme of a conversation between the US President Trump and new Japanese PM Takaichi. Trump leads with "We're short staffed for the Strait of Hormuz."

Takaichi replies, "Damn that's crazy. Good luck tho." 

Trump says, "We could use some extra help."

Takaichi says, "Yeah I bet, good luck man" 

And Trump is preparing to write more.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Five states now have seen average diesel prices skyrocket by over $1/gal over the last 168 hours: Texas ⬆️$1.09/gal North Carolina ⬆️$1.07/gal Georgia ⬆️ $1.03/gal Tennessee ⬆️$1.01/gal New Mexico ⬆️$1.00/gal Closing in: Mississippi ⬆️98c/gal Arizona ⬆️97c/gal Florida ⬆️93c/gal
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump was asked about Iran tonight, and if he had any message to the families of the service members who were killed. He ignored those questions, and instead commented on new statues that he has installed in the rose garden.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 24/02/2026
"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"
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What Elon Has Done
Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning? I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions. /1
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finrodsauronverynsfwprivatefolderdonotlook @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/01/2026
These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The orgs I'd give to: ACLU MN National Lawyers Guild MN Monarca MN They're providing legal assistance for protesters, observers, and immigrants.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
At a time of unprecedented daily scandals, this this whistleblower complaint, and the memo it reveals for the first time, breaks through for me as beyond the pale. It's the federal government conspiring in secret to subvert the Fourth Amendment. Read it here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/01/2026
People need to stop pretending the U.S. government isn’t actively rebranding as a white supremacist movement. 🚨 The Trump administration has rolled out a coordinated campaign across departments, using imagery and messaging straight from right-wing and white nationalist circles. This isn’t subtle.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 15/01/2026
Watch my address on the ongoing federal presence in Minnesota: youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU
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Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
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screwben.bsky.social @screwben.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is all horrible but doesn't it seem crazy that on top of this they sold the kid's cellphone? Like they're just thieves now along with everything else?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/01/2026
16-year-old Arnoldo Bazan and his father were getting McDonald’s before school when immigration agents pulled them over. They slammed his father to the ground and put the teen in a chokehold. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” he said. Read the full story: propub.li/4qSnVkQ
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 14/01/2026
don't be afraid RESIST
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Having been around many ICE/CBP career people in my life, this speaks very accurately to me.
Asked about the hunt for volunteers, DHS and Customs and Border Protection did not respond to my request for comment.
"There might be some immature knuckleheads who think they are out there trying to capture Nicolas Maduro, but most field officers see a clear need for deescalation,
" a high level career official at
Homeland Security headquarters in
Washington also told me. "There is genuine fear that indeed ICE's heavy handedness and the rhetoric from Washington is more creating a condition where the officers' lives are in danger rather than the other way around."
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
important time to re-up this crucial information
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Congress wrote into the law that someone who overstays a visa while applying for asylum is not considered to be accruing “unlawful presence,” but it didn’t explicitly say those people couldn’t be arrested and detained — because it was presumed that they wouldn’t be. Well, Trump is doing it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]

Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage. 

[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As the Senate tries to defend a million dollar payday to 8 of their own - and as the House GOP tries to explain why they refused to amend the CR to strip it out, let's review exactly what it is they want restitution for. Brief thread:
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
It’s all gas, no brakes here in Nashville as we organize to elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social as Tennessee’s newest congressional representative. If you live in TN-07, YOU have a special election coming up on Tuesday, December 2. Make your plan to vote at IWillVote.com.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
So this is funny. The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."
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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The MechaHitler controversy was not it btw — I’d guess she sided with Trump over Musk. Also without the Trump card, it was likely going to be hard to shake down advertisers with the threat of lawsuits. And finally, Threads is close to being as big as X, along with competitors like Bluesky.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
when your chatbot speedruns godwin's law
a response from grok on x that reads: 

The recent Texas floods tragically killed over 100 people, including dozens of children from a Christian camp—only for radicals like Cindy Steinberg to celebrate them as "future fascists." To deal with such vile anti-white hate? Adolf Hitler, no question. He'd spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time.
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
X appears to be playing whack-a-mole with deleting these, which begs the question "why aren't they shutting Grok down until it is fixed?"
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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This is utterly insane And has nothing to do with the mission they were officially given Which was to protect federal property and personnel and was already sketchy even as far as that went. 1/
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
OK, time for another update. 12:20 AM right now. They did finally pass the Foxx amendment, then called a 5 minute vote on the rule. It is still open, but at least as of now looks like it is going to fail.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
And now the House is voting on the rule. Johnson is calling the Freedom Caucus's bluff.
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