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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 18h

She doesn’t have an ‘immigration status.’ She’s a citizen. Appalling though predictable framing.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 19h

This is straight up, plain and simple authoritarianism. This is the canonical impeachable offense

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I think the popular imagination of how often men are the perpetrators is roughly correct, and the popular imagination of how often men and boys are the victims is wildly incorrect on account of people thinking assault is about attraction rather than power.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026

that’s right

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"CFTC staff began to investigate ... then were told to lay off." It's no exaggeration to say that the country is being run by a criminal syndicate.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026

Even if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Supreme Court endorses extreme cruelty toward helpless immigrants. The 6 Republican justices must think the Dred Scott decision is their precedent. Win the midterms and unpack the court.

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US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries

Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

@timmiller.bsky.social: “Jared Kushner should be up there the first day you have the gavel. And then after that, I'd start subpoenaing every company these guys have a contract with.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: “The kids are where I think everybody needs to start looking.”

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“When the South American man lay down in his bunk at night, he dreamed up ways to kill himself. During his time locked up at the Aurora immigration detention facility, he said he witnessed violence and abuse, grew weak from hunger and was, eventually, brutally beaten by guards …” #AbuseofPowerWatch

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s one that is extremely powerful: “Dude, gross.”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Kevin @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it occurs to ~everyone other than the people who drive the litigation that being sued for being broke is almost invariably a top 10 worst moment in anybody's life and escalating to the point of arrest is so insane nobody I've worked with has ever seen it across two states and decades of experience

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo’s funniest moments are when he temporarily forgets that he is a global public figure being watched constantly and is simply Bob from Chicago quietly saying “what the fuck” over and over in his head without bothering to keep his face from showing it

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Bethany Erickson @shoomer5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Immediately added these participants to my list of American Heroes I Should Have Learned About Earlier

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.

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Bethany Erickson @shoomer5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People are disappearing. We have made a hell for their families and legal representation trying to find them.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026

Wilber’s habeas case is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30, but his health cannot wait. The danger is systemic. Medically vulnerable individuals face extreme risk in these facilities; at least 57 people have died in MAGA concentration camps since January 20, 2025.

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Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump

Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 28/09/2026

It has been eight days since Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by ICE while making a DoorDash delivery in Austin, Texas. He is currently facing a severe medical emergency. The bullet remains lodged in his back, and he is being held at the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall.

DOORDASH IS ABANDONING ITS DRIVERS
URGENT UPDATE:
8 days after ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in the back while he was making a DoorDash delivery, the bullet remains in his body. Wilber is in agonizing pain inside a TX concentration camp, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. A photo of Wilber smiling, before ICE shot him, is shown.

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But I just did what nearly all writing about the issue does: talked about the percent of women on campus who will become victims without talking about the percent of men on campus who will become perpetrators. Most campus rape victims know their assailants.

1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence during college.
The 2019 Campus Climate Survey found that 13% of undergraduate students experienced rape or sexual assault after enrolling in college.

That’s about:

• 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)

• 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%)

who experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or inability to consent since enrolling at their school.

from: https://rainn.org/red-zone/campus-sexual-violence-statistics/

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's astounding how much of Catholic social media is:

Principal Skinner: Is loving immigrants part of my moral duty?

No, it's the Pope who is wrong!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

kind of funny that Benedict's social conservatism is basically how 95% of trads understood him when the man was infinitely more complex

“Back to Europe. A third model was added to the two models of the 19th century: socialism. Socialism took two main paths — the democratic and the totalitarian one. Democratic socialism became a healthy counterbalance to radically liberal positions in both existing models. It enriched and corrected them. It proved itself even when religious confessions took over. In England, it was the Catholic party, which felt at home neither in the Protestant-Conservative nor in the Liberal camp. Also in Wilhelmine Germany, the Catholic center could continue to feel closer to democratic socialism than to the conservative powers. In many ways, democratic socialism stands and stood close to the Catholic social teachings. It in any case contributed a substantial amount to the education of social conscience.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

No amnesty. Tribunal and jail for every disgusting soul responsible for assaulting our neighbors like this.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One impeachment trial a month until he's gone. Make the Senate a permanent court while Trump holds office. Be clear about "It will be this way until we've run out of worthy crimes" so everyone's clear about the gig. Make John Roberts loathe his work.

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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you watched the Reflecting Pool debacle, you would have known the chance for shoddy work that needs to be torn up and redone ANYWAY was always the likely outcome. And, here we go. Corruption sucks; it always leads to crappy outcomes for taxpayers. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues

James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026

US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z

Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's not the most racist in absolute terms, but by the metric of 'racism relative to the baseline for their contemporaries' the current admin easily the most racist administration in American history imo. there's no competition unless you count shit like the confederacy.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

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