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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." And the next one probably won't be such an extraordinarily delusional and incompetent buffoon. Disgrace and disincentives on him and his enablers have to be imposed now, while we still can.

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America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome

The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@dabryceisright.bsky.social Been a fan since Chikara days and loved meeting you at FIP shows 20 years back. I still have the “support indy wrestling” shirt you sold me back then 😊

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@allelitewrestling.com @tonykhan.bsky.social No idea how to reach #Thekla, but let her know that if she wants some really cool ring gear designs to hit me up. I’m a spider biologist and could point her in some awesome looking directions. 💜🕷️🕸️

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@tonykhan.bsky.social No idea how to reach #Thekla, but let her know that if she wants some really cool ring gear designs to hit me up. I’m a spider biologist and could point her in some awesome looking directions. 💜🕷️🕸️

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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 01/02/2026

When one grows up in an environment where the people in charge not only don’t care about them but are most often the causes of their suffering, it’s easy to recognize that situation writ large in society.

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Great thread of details toward what was said.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

SCOOP --> The cop who initially attested to Abrego Garcia's alleged MS-13 membership was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious professional misconduct: Sharing case info with a sex worker. This undermines Trumpworld's smears. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1940...

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Trump’s Case Against Man Deported in “Error” Just Took Another Big Hit

Trumpworld claims Kilmar Abrego Garcia was in MS-13. But new information concerning the local cop who attested to that charge at the time raises fresh questions about it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/04/2025

we should assume DOGE - and therefore Elon personally - has every piece of sensitive data the government has ever collected about you this is far beyond any of the biggest privacy scandals in history, many people should go to jail for this

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

NEW: DOJ doubles down on refusing to follow Judge Xinis's orders. Today's status report contains nothing new. It again fails to provide information about steps they're taking to bring Mr. Abrego back), and arguably violates her command that a declaration be made by someone with personal knowledge.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND (Greenbelt Division) KILMAR ARMANDO ABREGO GARCIA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al., Defendants No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX Declaration Of Assistant Director Evan C. Katz DECLARATION OF EVAN C. KATZ I, Evan C. Katz, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declare under penalty of perjury as follows: 1. I am Assistant Director for the Removal Division, within the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). 2. In this capacity, I am responsible for leading the division, which is composed of ICE Air Operations, International Operations, and Removal Management. I coordinate with the 25 ERO Field Offices to support case management and facilitate the removal of aliens from the United States. I have held this position since December 2023. Before this assignment, I served as the Acting Assistant Director for the Removal Division from January 2023 to November 2023 and Deputy Assistant Director for the Removal Division from January 2015 to December 2022. I have been in service with ICE since 2003 and prior to that, the Legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service since November 1997.

3. I provide this declaration based on my personal knowledge, reasonable inquiry, and information obtained from various records, systems, databases, other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, and information portals maintained and relied upon by DHS in the regular course of business. 4. I am aware that the instant lawsuit has been filed regarding the removal of Kilmer Armando Abrego-Garcia (Abrego-Garcia) to El Salvador. 5. I am aware that after this Court’s preliminary injunction issued, that the Government sought a stay pending appeal from the Fourth Circuit on the same day and ultimately the Supreme Court. On March 7, Chief Justice Roberts issued an administrative stay of that preliminary injunction order. On March 10, the Supreme Court held that “the deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective” and that aspects of this Court’s injunction needed to be clarified before they could become effective. 6. During proceedings in 2019, an immigration judge upheld DHS’s decision not to grant bond, finding that DHS’s determination that he was a member of MS-13 was “trustworthy” and “supported by other evidence,” and noted that Abrego-Garcia “failed to present evidence to rebut that assertion.” The Board of Immigration Appeals upheld the finding when Abrego-Garcia appealed. 7. On March 15, 2025, Abrego-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, was removed to El Salvador, pursuant to Title 8 of the United States Code. Although Abrego-Garcia has an order of removal issued by an immigration judge, I understand that he should not have been removed to El Salvador because the immigration judge had also granted Abrego-Garcia withholding of removal to El Salvador. However, I also understand that Abrego Garcia is no longer

eligible for withholding of removal because of his membership in MS-13 which is now a designated foreign terrorist organization. 8. I have reviewed the declaration of Mr. Michael Kozak, which was filed in this case yesterday, April 12, 2025. It is my understanding that Defendants have no updates for the Court beyond what was provided yesterday. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 13th day of April 2025. ____________________________ Evan C. Katz Assistant Director Enforcement and Removal Operations U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement U.S. Department of Homeland Securit

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

After masked agents snatched Rümeysa Öztürk in Mass., they took her that night to NH, then VE that same night. Then, to Louisiana in morning All in less than 24hrs "Immigration attorneys say the late-night hopscotch was an ICE tactic to complicate jurisdiction" www.propublica.org/article/rume...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Fuck this guy. We’ve always been here 🤬

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10/04/2025

Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"

(SBU) Under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(i), an alien is deportable from the United States if the Secretary of State has reasonable ground to believe that the alien's presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States. Under INA section 237(a)(4)(C)(ii), for cases in which the basis for this determination is the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations that are otherwise lawful, the Secretary of State must personally determine that the alien's presence or activities would compromise a compelling U.S. foreign policy interest.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

For 30+ years, Camins Bretts has lived publicly as a man. Now he's been given a passport that says he’s a woman. It’s a valid passport, but he's been detained at the border enough times to know how U.S. officials react to these kinds of inconsistencies. And for him, this new normal feels familiar.

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Jewish Americans feel echoes of history in transgender passport restrictions

Many transgender Americans now hold passports that out them as being trans. LGBTQ+ Jewish people see this as part of a familiar playbook from the Holocaust.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you are a con law professor and doing anything but saying that this is republic-jeopardizing stuff, you are doing it wrong

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.” They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/03/2025

If you're calling Senators at the numbers listed here but getting through—KEEP CALLING. They're currently "experiencing high call volume" which means that our collective actions are working. Keep dialing. Keep sharing. Keep calling. Don't relent. www.qasimrashid.com/p/chuck-schu...

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Chuck Schumer Must Resign & Democrats Must Change or Risk Abandonment

It's become painfully clear the current Democratic Party isn't built to fight fascism, but as voters we cannot afford to sit silent—take this action to raise your voice today

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

CNN reports that in a private meeting, Senator Michael Bennet erupted, accusing Democratic leadership of having "No strategy, no plan, and no message on this spending bill" (direct quote)

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 14/03/2025

Yes a shutdown would have consequences. And a Republican President, Republican House, and Republican Senate would be responsible. They have acted in a unilateral and unprecedented way. Democrats cannot cave. They must fight back.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 14/03/2025

Record Number of U.S. Students Apply for U.K. Undergraduate Degrees Figures suggest demand may have risen after Donald Trump’s election in November. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/41TiFT4

Graduates holding diplomas with red ribbons at a commencement ceremony.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 14/03/2025

Green card holders "are living in fear now about what's going to happen to them. Did they say something or do something that Trump doesn't like?" @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debates Piers Morgan about the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil — he doesn't hold back. Full show: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-vs-p...

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The OCR investigated my school during Trump’s first term because they weren’t giving me proper disability accommodations. Now they’ve been weaponized into this. Fucking shame.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Trans people have long warned that most of the victims of anti-trans laws and policies would be cis women and girls who don't have the "right look."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2025

If you can, make noise in Iowa. The Republicans there are aiming to become the first in modern history to remove civil rights protections. They're trying to strip gender identity protections that have been in place for nearly 18 years. apnews.com/article/iowa...

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Iowa Republicans back a bill that would strip gender identity from the state's civil rights code

Several protesters were arrested at the Iowa state Capitol as Republican lawmakers advanced a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Sorry, fresh update -- he commented, now that a child has died. His comment was that the outbreak is "not unusual." Which is a fun way to describe something that hasn't happened in 30 years. apnews.com/article/meas...

apnews.com

An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas. It's the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

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Kurt Wagner @kurtwagner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

New: Ex-Twitter workers keep winning severance claims against Elon Musk. Employees are 20 for 20 so far in getting full severance from Musk via arbitration, including four people who were laid off after the "Fork in the Road" ultimatum www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email

Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022.

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Seen at my local piercing shop today. Rachel Larratt is why BME died. Fuck her. I’m annoyed as hell that there was no card for Shannon, the real owner of BME. #bmezine #bodymodification #bodyart #bodymods

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 26/02/2025

What if we built a new major news and opinion journalism outlet from scratch and used it as a news lab to reform and rethink how we do things, starting first with billionaire-proofing it. And what if we honestly audited our flaws and came together to make the news orgs we want to see?

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Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit (Gift Article)

Jeff Bezos, the owner of The Post, said that the newspaper’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

now would be a good time for liberals to make a massive investment in progressive media. decades of relying on the ny times/wapo/ap/cnn has been a failure and they're now more right-wing than ever. everything is turning into a miniature fox news and liberals dont want to put money into this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sánchez. Bezos is in a tight fitting shirt, heart-shaped sunglasses, tight white pants, and a white belt. The shirt has a red, gold, and blue pattern in the style of a kitchen backsplash. Sánchez is in a two-piece, sparkly outfit.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025

NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.

GPT-4o

This image is a document from the U.S. Department of State with the subject "Guidance to Visa-Issuing Posts on January 20 Executive Order 14168 on Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." It outlines an action request and provides a summary and definitions related to sex and gender as per the executive order (E.O.). The document mandates that sex listed on visas must correspond to the biological sex at birth and instructs the use of the term 'sex' rather than 'gender' in federal policies and documents.

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This image is a continuation of a document from the U.S. Department of State. It details the implementation of changes to ensure government-issued identification documents, like passports and visas, reflect the holder's sex as defined by an executive order. It states that foreign passports should be considered as evidence of the applicant’s sex but may require confirmation if discrepancies are noticed. The document outlines the process for consular officers to follow when there is a discrepancy in sex markers. It also provides action requests for updating public instructions on visa applications, specifying the requirement to select sex at birth. Existing U.S. visas that do not comply with this guidance remain valid until expiration.

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This image is the final part of a document from the U.S. Department of State regarding guidance on an executive order about recognizing sex on government-issued documents. It explains that existing visas remain valid until expiration despite sex marker differences. The document mentions forthcoming updates to FAM guidance and outlines talking points for interacting with applicants. It reaffirms the policy to list sex, not gender identity, on U.S. visas. Additional guidance can be accessed via specified web resources. It includes contact emails for media and congressional inquiries, and is signed by various personnel involved in drafting, clearing, approving, and releasing the document.

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Rebecca 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @sageofpsych.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In these situations I’m always reminded of “The Contact Hypothesis” which shows that direct exposure to marginalised groups reduces stigma, but trans people are almost never given that opportunity in mainstream discussions. We need more direct visibility, not just cis people debating our existence.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 25/02/2025

Pod Save America brought on Bill Maher to spew easily disproven anti-trans talking points. They keep saying they’re not anti-trans and trying to walk back statements they make. I have offered to go on their show to talk. I’m offering again now. Talk to a freaking trans person.

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Jade @skyespider.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

It’s official: my bad wrist is FINALLY being fused on May 5th. I’ve been begging to be out of pain since the botched surgery in 2008, and asking about fusion since 2012. I finally got a doctor to listen to me! 🥳 Now, just keep your fingers crossed that Medicare and Medicaid still exist by then. 🤞🏻😳🤞🏻

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of...

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