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Truth teller, BS detector, anti-oligarch, sharing news to save democracy in the US and around the world

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Justin Hendrix spoke with Casey Michel, author of United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the US, and Destroy Democracy, about how a few of the wealthiest Americans seized the commanding heights of government—and what it will take to break their grip.
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Casey Michel on Breaking the Tech Oligarchy's Grip
Casey Michel is the author of United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the US, and Destroy Democracy.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The ruling in New Mexico v. Meta is a landmark, argues Nathaniel Lubin, an expert witness in the case: for the first time, a social media platform was found to have caused a "public nuisance." The finding, he writes, establishes that platforms may be held responsible for their products' effects.
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Why New Mexico v. Meta Matters
Nathaniel Lubin served as an expert witness in State of New Mexico v. Meta Inc.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tulane's Muira McCammon documented how Google turned off reviews for 90+ ICE detention facilities, erasing accounts of conditions inside. Google says disabling ICE facility reviews was "unrelated to a government request." But McCammon argues the effect is the same: dissent rendered invisible.
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As Google Scrubs ICE Detention Reviews, Platform Power Serves State Interests
Google’s content moderation choices threaten to render accounts of treatment inside federal detention centers invisible, writes Muira McCammon.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is insane. New immigration judges, many of whom have never read a single immigration law case in their life before they got the job, are getting just 12 weekdays of training before they go on the bench, and very little of it is on the substantive law.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
These were the two clearest images from projection a few minutes ago at the Kennedy Center. Before that, workers arrived and pulled up the tarp. How much do you want to bet that they don't pull the tarp off tonight?
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Somebody is hopefully already working on a LEGO diorama of this.
Picture of workers preparing to remove the name Donald J. Trump from the Kennedy Center.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Congratulations to @stephenking.bsky.social for this well-deserved honor!👍 (Novels/Novellas: Approximately 65 to 67 Non-fiction books: 5 books. Short Stories: Over 200 Pseudonyms: 7 novels were published as Richard Bachman. Frequency: He has published at least one book almost every year since 1974)
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I've already greatly reduced my use of FB, and mostly scroll Insta and Threads, but this makes me really want to stop all of them. www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-...
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Read the full memo behind Meta's AI employee tracking rollout
Meta deploys keystroke-tracking software on US employees' computers, sparking privacy concerns and internal backlash.
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 20/12/2025
At least 16 files disappeared from the DOJ’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photo showing President Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.
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At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department did not say why the files were removed or whether their disappearance was intentional.
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 21/12/2025
Amid backlash over the Trump administration’s push to rename the Kennedy Center, people gathered outside the iconic building to protest the name change.
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Protesters fight back against Trump push to rename Kennedy Center
As backlash continues over the Trump administration’s push to rename the Kennedy Center, News4’s Jessica Albert attended a protest held outside the iconic building led by people who plan to fight the ...
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DSdbqLd...
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NBC4 Washington on Instagram: "A man walking his dog past the Kennedy Center on Friday morning had thoughts about the changes being made to the sign on the memorial arts center. #kennedycenter #washi...
In this emotional video, Andrew Howard expresses his dismay at the recent changes made to the Kennedy Center sign in Washington D.C. The addition of Donald Trump's name to the memorial has sparked a h...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/12/2025
‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts
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‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts
Ultra-conservative Christian organisations look to reshape global health landscape as new aid agreements open door to demands restricting family planning services
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Today at immigration court 26 Federal Plaza this woman went ballistic to the masked ICE agents who detained her family member. Where are the people standing up to the Gestapo? I never saw this in 4 months I’ve been filming. 👏👏👏👏
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?
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ct @cteeze-nuts.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I like how the NYT tried to do a “some experts say” framing, and the expert was like, you do not need an expert opinion to see this is bad.
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Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges.
"What a travesty," said Bennett L.
Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. "The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don't need a law professor to explain it."
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 19/10/2025
We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Protesters fill the streets against ICE in Chicago 9/6/25
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🔔 🔔 🔔
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Unreal. We need oversight @reed.senate.gov .
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
There’s a reason Dr. King's historic 1963 rally was called “The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” As he warned the nation, "We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor." Real freedom requires economic freedom for all.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Let's be plain: People. Will. Die. Preventable deaths. wapo.st/4lSXqIV
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White House taps top RFK Jr. deputy as acting CDC director
The decision comes a day after Trump fired Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, prompting a series of resignations of other top officials at the agency.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 14/06/2025
Tim Snyder: Today no kings, tomorrow freedom. There is a better America out there. There is a better America underneath. There is a better America that we can see. There is a better America that we can make. History is in our hands.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Awesome turnout for #nokings in Rockville!
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#nokings
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/05/2025
A federal district judge tosses out the takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace by the Trump administration and DOGE, declaring that actions by "illegitimately-installed leaders" were "unlawful" and had to be declared "null and void."
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Judge strikes down DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace
A federal judge ruled that the actions of "illegitimately-installed leaders" — including the purported transfer of the Institute's building — were "null and void."
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/05/2025
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warns that markets are too complacent about tariffs and deficits. “We have huge deficits; we have what I consider almost complacent central banks. You all think they can manage all this. I don’t think they can.”
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Dimon warns markets are too complacent about tariffs and deficits
The JPMorgan CEO said he expects Wall Street to lower profit expectations for major companies.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 20/05/2025
BREAKING: Judge orders the Trump administration to facilitate contact between a Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador and his lawyers, the first such order in the administration's legal saga over the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act.
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Judge orders Trump administration to allow attorneys access to Venezuelan man in Salvadoran prison
It’s the first such order in the mounting legal saga surrounding President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of men to a supermax prison in El Salvador.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Law firms, stop doing deals with Trump! You and the judges are our last line of defense. If you don't stand together and create a wall of resistance, Trump will issue even more harmful and illegal orders, because he knows you're not going to defend us.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
How much untold pain and disgrace could have been avoided had a handful of GOP Senators had the guts to convict after the second impeachment? They utterly failed the test of history.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A real sign at the American Bar Association spring meeting in DC (h/t @balancecraft.bsky.social)
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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Among Trump's zillion executive orders, one aims to evaporate government "information silos." If he gets his way on this, your privacy might be evaporated as well. PS the order demands that he consolidates the stuff about you held by states as well. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
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President Trump’s War on ‘Information Silos’ Is Bad News for Your Personal Data
Donald Trump’s March 20 executive order aims to eliminate data silos. It could undermine privacy in the process.
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DCCC @electdemocrats.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Republicans inherited one of the strongest stock markets in history and in 1 month they've fucked it all up.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Powerful women on this panel. @maya4rights.bsky.social stating the US is already a hybrid authoritarian regime. @safiyanoble.bsky.social saying this oppression isn't new, minority and marginalized groups recognized this first based on personal experience & history.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What is the biggest challenge today for AI and democracy? Maya Wiley (paraphrased): "Hybrid Authoritarianism. The US is already in an authoritarian regime. It's hybrid because it has some guardrails - the courts."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.
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Andi 🇺🇦 @andipostcards.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Omg this man's sign is brilliant #TeslaTakeDown @teslatakedown.com
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The thing about people working for Trump not getting direct orders from him and just acting on a combo of what they think he'd want and what fits their own motives - that's a pretty classic hallmark of dictatorship isn't it
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have to stop this now. The longer it goes on, the more acceptable it becomes, the more brazen the government will be and they will expand and grow this.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh. My. Gawd. Putin must be laughing his head off.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Insanely reckless. A clown car for a cabinet, but worse because this is our country's safety and security at stake.
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shedsunlight.bsky.social @shedsunlight.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Everyone who voted for this has blood on their hands, whether they voted for Trump or the Texas Republican party.
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Friendly Neighborhood Commie Scumbag @fncommie.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. @indivisible.org
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
There is no moral ambiguity. Russia is the imperial agressor and Ukraine is the victim defending itself. We cannot permit the authoritarian right to usurp objectivity with 'balance'. As Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote, “We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.
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