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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
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5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/07/2026
A Florida cop used an AI-powered licence plate reader to stalk someone, 404 Media reports:
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Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 29/05/2026
Residents of South Memphis neighborhoods are being regularly exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for public health, according to a community air monitoring project report released May 21. From @cstephenson.bsky.social.
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Community air monitoring project finds South Memphis is regularly exposed to unsafe air pollution • Tennessee Lookout
South Memphis neighborhoods are being exposed to air pollution levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for public health.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/04/2026
I mean, of *course* this will be an outcome of everyone having facial recognition glasses, and of *course* Meta already knows this. They just don't care.
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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
When you pay your taxes this year, remember: Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, many huge corporations will pay little to nothing in federal taxes. [@itep.org]
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
While Swalwell decides whether or not to resign his Congressional seat, the guy running to replace him is @mattortega.com, a good friend and outstanding progressive. You should send Matt some support if you're able:
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Matt Ortega is fighting for an affordable future
Fight for a future you can afford—and the freedom to live it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/04/2026
When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)
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Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes
Learn how to request your health insurance claim file, which can include details about what your insurer is saying about you and your case.
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EEK! Semper Tyrannis! 🕸️🦇🍬🍫 @nicksempertyrannis.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Nuance is just a scam by Big Context to sell more details.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Being a "professional cage fighter" is core to Markwayne Mullin's brand. He says he has a 5-0 record. I found documentation of 3 wins. Two came against a man who almost always lost. I dug up video of his opponent and the guy just got knocked out repeatedly. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...
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Markwayne’s World: The ‘Cinematic’ And ‘Fantastical’ Life Of Trump’s DHS Pick
Markwayne Mullin has an incredible story. The Republican U.S. senator is an...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid
Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I don’t want to share the video because it’s pretty graphic, but apparently we’re at the ‘Republican Senator breaks the arm of a Marine IN FULL DRESS because that marine was protesting the Republicans starting a war of choice with Iran’ stage of things.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/02/2026
IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state. Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.
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WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator
But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
ICE detentions are costing many more lives than are in the headlines. A must read from three doctors who treat undocumented patients: “At least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025, the deadliest year in two decades. Another six people have died this year.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/o...
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Opinion | ‘Our Patients Are More Frightened and Sicker Than Ever’
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
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Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Over FCC Scrutiny; Posts Interview to YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/02/2026
Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/02/2026
A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing. We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.
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Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU
Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Veterans Affairs chaplains are being instructed not to mention slain VA nurse Alex Pretty. “It is inhuman, unconscionable, and unconstitutional. This is propelling the Constitution into a woodchipper.”
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VA Chaplains in Massachusetts Told Not to Mention Slain Nurse Alex Pretti
Alex Pretti is being memorialized nationwide, but chaplains at Veterans Affairs facilities in Massachusetts have been barred from mentioning his name.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/02/2026
Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Activists responding to reports of an ICE abduction in Minneapolis found an abandoned car with flat tires, riddled with bullet holes (1/30/26)
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Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trump's idea of "de-escalation" is to arrest journalists like Don Lemon for doing their jobs. Note also that Lemon's arrest comes *despite* the rejection of possible charges by a magistrate judge. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
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Daniel Silliman @danielsilliman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🔴 'Domestic Terrorism': ICE Contractor Palantir's Tools for Tracking Dissent Peter Thiel's firm – which has contracts with the UK's NHS and MoD – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE's data platform to conduct mass deportation, @nafeez.bsky.social reports
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‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to ...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: What is unfolding in Minneapolis is their vision for the country. It is an authoritarian state that cuts immigrants from the national fabric. And paints anyone who resists as a ‘domestic terrorist.’ And Americans hate it.
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026
ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Reporting the Trump had “pivoted” was journalistic malpractice popular.info/p/how-legacy...
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How legacy media fell for Trump’s fake “pivot” in Minnesota
No, Trump did not "change course."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/01/2026
"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun
by Sarah Jeong

Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Feels like given DHS making up stories about what we can plainly see in the murder videos, we have to just presume every other death under their purview is also murder.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Po Tay Toe @smith-wise.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Screenshot of satire article with headline "NRA Accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government"
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jerome i guess. @jeromecylin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A fascist death squad murdered a Department of Veterans Affairs ICU nurse this morning and VA Secretary Doug Collins hasn't said a word. Quite the message to veterans and their caregivers.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I will be another voice to say, I have watched the video and you do not need to watch it unless you doubt what is being said. There is no ambiguity. Agents dogpile a person, he is on the ground, one of them starts clubbing with a pistol and then fires repeatedly. Even after the body is still.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wow — Newly-released State Department documents show that the Trump-Vance-Rubio administration literally only abducted Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk because she co-wrote an op-ed urging Tufts to follow student resolutions to acknowledge genocide in Gaza & divest from companies tied to Israel.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
two images of an arrest, one digitally altered by the White House to make it look like the arrestee is crying
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 22/01/2026
"ICE held a 5-year-old hostage to try to smoke out his family, then disappeared him when it didn't work" is the closest I've gotten to fedposting
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/01/2026
Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for the people it detains, often using third-party providers to do so. But, despite ample funding, the agency has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025.
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/john-a...
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‘The World Needs To See It’: The Moment A Photographer Saved A Camera From ICE
John Abernathy was tackled by federal agents in Minneapolis and threw his Leica to safety.
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