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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Nah, what "MAHA" understands is that moms of autistic kids make a excellent cover story for destroying a system of expert review of safety and efficacy that keeps alt-health products off the market. The FT had an article on the $ behind MAHA policies. Less heartwarming. www.ft.com/content/1a7c...
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Maha Inc: how companies tied to Kennedy’s movement are poised to benefit
Kaleidoscope of industries emerge as early winners from administration’s health regulation overhaul
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/07/2026
The Politico article itself notes that there is ZERO actual evidence for the DHS claims. The Politico headline is inexcusable. Never forget that Politico is owned by Alex Springer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Politico’s parent company Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner emailed his top executives shortly before the 2020 election to ask if any of them would “want to get together for an hour in the morning on November 3 and pray that Donald Trump will again become President of the United States of America,” according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you use Waymo driverless car services, you are aiding and abetting fascism. Waymo helps I.C.E. agents locate people to terrorize and abduct. The company willingly shares all facial recognition, license plate and GPS data with I.C.E. and other law enforcement agencies—no subpoena required.
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Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
ALT: Waymo Self-Driving Jaguar at Traffic Light
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are not angry enough--a whistleblower provided evidence a DOGE brat stole social sec data & sold it to a Palantir contractor. Our data is used to sell services back to the govt at taxpayer expense for big profits. That is OUR data. Instead of investigating the whisteblower is threatened 😠
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 04/06/2026
One of the very first things that were gutted/interrupted by this admin was screw worm management but, in particular, the cooperative component with the Mexican government and agribusiness, who were desperate for maximum collaboration/management.
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☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.゚☠ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
You know how in 'Vertigo' all the characters act insane, and then Hitchcock has James Stewart's ladyfriend Midge be the audience-foil character who sees through the insanity and ask basic questions about his behavior? U.S. District Court judges have been cast in the Trump 2 Movie as Midge
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Supreme Court ruling today is also part of the GOP plan to rig future elections and more importantly it’ll be the basis to remove judges and other officials under the pretext they were hired / appointed due to their race or sex. The point is to disrupt, distract, and dismantle.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/03/2026
“Jews are overrepresented in the media.” No, no, no, you’re thinking of cops. Cops are overrepresented in the media.
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Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops
Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Every interview with this guy comes off like he's *hoping* to be beaten to death by an angry mob.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/03/2026
Good morning! Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion 💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron is worth $150 million And Jared became a billionaire last year. Have a great day!
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS
Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
obama made the same mistake in 2009 "we won, so things are normal now. we can turn the page and the republicans will stop being crazy" republican, as he paints his sign of obama as a witch doctor pushing socialism: "oh really?"
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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 15/06/2024
Brontësaurus. Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014. Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓
Illustration of an anthropomorphised Brontosaurus in an early 19th century dress standing with a quill pen in her right hand at a writing desk with a sheaf of papers. She faces left, but her head is turned slightly towards the viewer. Beneath the desk are scattered a few more sheets of a manuscript. In the background, a framed silhouette portrait of the head and neck of another sauropod hangs on the wall.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Late-stage capitalism is pathological 🤮
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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Really don't understand how this isn't a bigger scandal. This is conspiracy to commit federal witness tampering (and likely witness murder) for the purpose of covering up a foreign government's deal with organized crime, a deal that has been affirmed by the DOJ.
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"86 47" @mikeytsi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You. Cannot. Trust. Any. Research. An. LLM. Returns. It is "inherently" untrustable, because it does not, and can not understand what words mean. It is a a foundational problem with the technology. It's a prediction engine, which can work "okay" with coding where there's only x number of methods,
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They didn't just leave it in, there was apparently a microphone near where he was seated (40 rows back). Seems downright callous bsky.app/profile/core...
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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William Tucker @miscellanyblue.com · 22/02/2026
Read this thread. "Did airport employees in Portsmouth even know 100-200 shackled people were likely sitting on a plane on their tarmac all night?" #NHPolitics
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“Can I ask you a question?” I never know how to answer this. Should I go with my first impulse, which is always “no” or just give in to the inevitable?
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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Now a cynical mind would say “this is on its face obviously a sex club where rich men could sleep with young women and Jeffrey would hold blackmail above their heads if they tried to distance themselves from him” but an optimist would say “no it was an elite smart people club for big idea havers”
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 16/02/2026
"The warehouse was allocated only six Equivalent Dwelling Units for water....four toilets, two showers, and two sinks—suitable as an “industrial shell only” "As is typical in warehouses, temperature and air exchanges were not considered in designing these units, making them rife for infections."
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
TikTok and other social media influencers are destabilizing entire communities with their antics, whether it's in Tucson about a high-profile kidnapping, or Ohio, spreading rumors about groups working with Haitian immigrants. 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
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TikTokers came to Springfield looking for ICE. Then the child trafficking rumors began.
The conspiracy theories have triggered chaos in the Ohio city, where Haitian immigrant families and the groups working with them are already on edge.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/02/2026
The Department of Homeland Security’s new tool to check voters’ citizenship is mistakenly identifying people as noncitizens, according to a report Friday from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. trib.al/xTaHwIL
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
Assuming a machine trained on a massively cultural database shot through with inequality will not reproduce that inequality is magical thinking on a level that I’ve rarely seen.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/02/2026
Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you
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Salome @salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
House decides they’re A-ok with a significant portion of women not being able to vote. I’ll be calling my senators again tomorrow and hope you will too.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is why we don’t have universal healthcare.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
But before I go: We're about to see a generation of Democrats whose model for a candidate for municipal office is Zohran Mamdani, alongside a generation of Republicans who are spending their twenties being Nazi on main. These two developments also bode well.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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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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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/02/2026
If the people destroying the world are the same ones building the lifeboats, the lifeboats won’t save us.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
Nazi concentration camp prisoner population by year
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Okay wait. The vice-chair of the National Governors Association - who just so happens to be Black - has been disinvited from a White House event? wtaf
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.
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