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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
NEW: A new audit by the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterms.
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U.S. Postal Service Failed to Properly Handle Some Ballots During This Year’s Primary Elections, Audit Finds
An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Why and how did your government betray you on so many levels? Find out here! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
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Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/08/2026
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin ... don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told. “It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another. (Published April 2025)
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 18/08/2026
a scoop from yours truly: back in June, thousands of smaller-size, lower-budget nonprofits that depended on free Microsoft services suddenly found all their data purged, seemingly without warning. so I dug into what really happened: slate.com/technology/2...
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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Every one of these sites that leans into AI is profiting from theft, and no one should support that. Michael is one of 16K artists who didn't consent to their work being scraped and used by an industry that has dumped $1.6 trillion into AI. For what? 7/7 www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/04/l...
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Leaked: the names of more than 16,000 non-consenting artists allegedly used to train Midjourney’s AI
The lists were both partially included in a recent class-action lawsuit and accidentally shared via a public Google spreadsheet
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23/07/2026
MSG’s new lawsuit against @wired.com isn’t just about defamation. It’s an attack on the newsgathering process itself. If journalists can be sued for talking to sources with NDAs, powerful institutions have another way to keep their secrets.
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MSG revives legal theory that once haunted ‘60 Minutes’
Journalists don’t lose First Amendment protections just because a source signed an NDA
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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.
Cargo ship NCL Salten, enjoying a brief spell as a garden ornament in a Norwegian fjord.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 01/07/2026
Good news, Bluesky users: There will be a make-up weather siren test next week on Wednesday, July 8 at 1 p.m.
Bluseky users expressing sadness about the weather warning siren test being cancelled.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/06/2026
The conversation I have had with each of my kids: "if you *ever* run into a problem online and you think you're in trouble, you can *always* come talk to me about it, and if you think I will be upset about a choice you made just start out by saying 'I may need some help.'" And I will take that...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
And a lot of you post the photos but put an emoji sticker over the kid's face or whatever: that is really, really, really not sufficient to prevent people from doing things with them you do not want to know about. Do not post photos of your kids online, period.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2026
The University of Chicago will provide free tuition to students of families earning less than $250,000 a year.
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University of Chicago Makes Tuition Free for Families Making Under $250,000
It becomes one of just a couple of major universities offering free tuition to families at that income level.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/05/2026
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/04/2026
Using a VPN may subject Americans to warrantless government surveillance. We need much more transparency — and stricter limitations on how the government can use this data to bypass Americans’ privacy rights.
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VPN surveillance: Time for transparency and limits on spy powers
A recent letter from our lawmakers raises the question: What does the intelligence community do with the data of VPN users in the United States?
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Privacy Badger @privacybadger.org · 06/04/2026
Would you like to help us test Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS? You'll need Safari 26 and Apple's TestFlight app. If this sounds good, please send an email to extension-devs at eff.org and we'll send you an invite when the build is ready.
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maya ventura @mayawalkwith.me · 13/02/2026
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/02/2026
The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. This decision rescinds a 2009 declaration that carbon dioxide and other gases endanger public health.
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Trump’s EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned U.S. fight against climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. This decision rescinds a 2009 declaration that carbon dioxide and ...
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/02/2026
“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.
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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/02/2026
Ring is going all in on AI with their new Search Party tool which they introduced in a cute lil commercial about locating a dog. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on how they've sold fear to the American people and got consumers to build a surveillance dragnet. Listen now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JK-...
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KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Calls for Minneapolis to extend video retention from 14 days intensify, as some lawyers argue longer storage could provide crucial evidence in ICE activity cases.
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Growing calls for Minneapolis to preserve security camera footage during Operation Metro Surge
Calls for Minneapolis to extend video retention from 14 days intensify, as some lawyers argue longer storage could provide crucial evidence in ICE activity cases.
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I think y'all are going to make the young'uns politically active in a way you do not like. www.3newsnow.com/central-omah...
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Nebraska lawmakers vote to reduce minimum wage for workers under 20
Nebraska lawmakers voted to reduce the minimum wage for workers under 20 to $13.50 and cap future increases, rolling back a voter-approved initiative.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 06/02/2026
For more on the important news leaks have brought to you lately, read this from FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social:
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DHS calls leaks a threat. Here’s what we wouldn’t know without them
Recent leaks have exposed DHS’s warrantless home invasions, targeting of protesters, surveillance overreach, and propaganda campaigns
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sheridan7284.bsky.social @sheridan7284.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
www.404media.co/icezine/
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Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here
Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 05/02/2026
The most "don't threaten me with a good time" of all time
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sheridan7284.bsky.social @sheridan7284.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Still no Abolish Ice? @mndot.mn.gov Chicago Approved it!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/02/2026
tomorrow i would really like to challenge a few folks with larger followings than me to adopt a rent and raise it in one day. my little group chat and my followers have paid like 70 families rents in the past four days. i believe that some of y’all could help us keep one family housed.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/02/2026
look ashley is some kind of hero and you should go to the website she made, www.standwithminnesota.com, and see if there's somewhere you wanna throw a few bucks
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Stand With Minnesota
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 04/02/2026
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 04/02/2026
The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 04/02/2026
NEW: Over 55% of presidentially appointed inspectors general positions are vacant in the offices charged with preventing waste, fraud and abuse. Trump has gutted and undermined independent oversight at the very time it is needed most.
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By leaving over 55% of presidentially appointed IG posts vacant, Trump is opening the door for waste, fraud and abuse - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
At the end of 2025, over half of the 38 presidentially appointed federal inspector general positions remained vacant.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 24/01/2026
A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state. Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers. A Supreme Court case could make it worse. Here’s how.
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Supreme Court could greenlight geofence warrants
A new case may legalize suspicionless mass surveillance of journalists and whistleblowers
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Jennifer Brooks @stribrooks.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.
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Space Lawyer @spacelawyer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In Minnesota, they practice Opesec
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/01/2026
When self-employed software engineer Nick Benson put out the call for dashcams online, he thought he’d get maybe 10 people to donate. More than 500 have shown up on his front porch in suburban Minneapolis.
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How One Guy Crowdsourced More Than 500 Dashcams for Minneapolis to Film ICE
‘We have to make sure people are watching. We have to make sure we’re keeping track of our community members.’
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
TNR reports that ICE isn't paying its bills to health care providers and is DENYING CARE to detainees. Tracks with what we hear from visitors to Delaney Hall in Newark who often emerge saying people w/ diabetes, heart conditions etc are NOT getting needed treatment. newrepublic.com/post/205458/...
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ICE Has Cut Its Detainees Off From Medical Care
The organization hasn’t paid third-party medical providers in months.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 21/01/2026
Have a pal who will match the first $1,000 you all donate to the Immigrant Law Center TODAY. You can reply with verification (make sure ID info obscured) or DM me. Thanks everyone!
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SHOEGAZE COMMANDO @bornwithatail.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We will allow non-Minnesotans to post one (1) piece of unsolicited advice about what we should be doing right now upon evidence that you have made at least a three-figure donation www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Minnesota DFL Party @dfl.org · 21/01/2026
Show up to tell Tom Emmer & Republicans to get ICE out of Minnesota: dfl.org/caucus
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Precinct Caucuses | Minnesota DFL
A caucus is a gathering of neighbors who come together to discuss issues, set priorities for our party, and organize our local DFL unit. In a moment of intensified federal overreach and violence — inc...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/01/2026
Read @freedom.press' @laurenleharper.bsky.social on the government's raid of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson:
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FBI Raid on WaPo Reporter’s Home Was Based on Sham Pretext
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind rules protecting journalists are being used as a cudgel to attack the First Amendment.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thank you, Tina! OK I'm going to shame-tag @mccollum.house.gov, I see a few calls for "accountability" but I don't see anything that's particularly meeting the moment. Still at that hockey game @amyklobuchar.com? bsky.app/profile/smit...
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