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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans giddily allowed President Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. After which, mass shootings exploded. This is America.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One recurring concern over generative AI is its high energy consumption and environmental impact So I asked Unity's CEO if the company's Spark game dev program will show the carbon footprint of requests made to its AI agents He said: “We hadn’t considered that. That’s something worth considering”

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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

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FREEBROOKLYN❌👑 @freebklyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ICE abuses. ICE will escalate if they can. ICE does not observe the law. ICE hurts people. ICE kills people. Abolish ICE.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So does the GOP force all of its candidates to prove they’ve physically and/or sexually assaulted a woman before they can run as a Republican? Sorta like a gang initiation?

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Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're a woman who plays EA Sports CFB or Madden, I wanna talk to you! And if you're a woman who loves football and don't play those games, I also wanna hear from you! Working on a piece on football, the sports video games, and well, US! RESHARES APPRECIATED

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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

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

For every arrest that breaks through into public view, countless others happen quickly, before anyone can notice. Now ICE is anywhere and everywhere, embedded in all corners of everyday life.

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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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

But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.

A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.

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

The biggest category of arrests this summer were people on probation, picked up by immigration officers at their work, or who were arrested in communities across the country.

A chart showing immigration arrests by immigration enforcement in communities, where arrests peaked in late June 2026 at over 1,000 per day.

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

As has long been the case, ICE works with jails and prisons to take custody of immigrants after they have been booked in. Since Trump took office last year, only 46% of detainees have been previously convicted of crimes.

A chart showing immigration arrests by transfer from jail or prison, with daily arrests peaking over 600 in July 2026.

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

And it's clear that ICE is using both familiar and novel tactics to maximize arrests, from jail transfers to so-called 287(g) agreements that deputize local police forces to carry out immigration enforcement on ICE’s behalf.

A chart that breaks down the trend of immigration arrests into four categories:

- Immigration enforcement in communities
- Transfer from jail or prison
- Local police
- Other

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

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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

Then, officers killed two US citizens during an ICE “blitz” on Minneapolis. After a public backlash, the Trump administration said it would try a new approach.

Signage of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are seen near the site of Pretti’s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Feb. 4, 2026.

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

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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songs2breakup2.bsky.social @songs2breakup2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@stephentotilo.bsky.social have you considered leaving substack? I'd like to support your outlet directly without supporting substack platform. Not sure how many other readers might feel the same way, could be better for your margins as well outpost.pub/outpost-vs-s...

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Outpost vs SubStack

There are big differences between sites powered by Ghost and Outpost versus by Substack: practical, technical, and philosophical.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cuba is a tiny island, 90 miles from Florida and the U.S. military is currently preparing to obliterate it. Cuba will soon be used as a convenient place to house I.C.E. abductees—where the U.S. Constitution does NOT apply. Since mastering Project 2025, sadly *all* my predictions have come to pass.

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Project 2025 Tracker

A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals

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The Amityville Jordan (1979) @jackal27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

UPDATE: SCP Foundation have posted a statement saying they were not consulted or contacted about the A24 SCP project. scp-wiki.wikidot.com/statement-on...

Statement On V/H/S SCP Foundation Film

The staff and authors of the SCP Foundation Wiki (the real-life writing project behind the SCP Foundation universe and its official home) were not consulted or contacted regarding this film. We have been attempting to contact the filmmakers but haven't yet been successful. To be clear: we have not had any communication with the filmmakers, producers, or distributors for this project, despite our best efforts, and to the best of our knowledge they have not made any efforts to contact us. Furthermore, A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

screenshot of discord message showing sonic special with the user lao saying: "This is what a physical horizon on a sphere would look like." the meme top text says: "I JOINED A FLAT EARTH SERVER AND THEY TRIED TO USE A SEGA GAME AS PROOF"

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: A sailor who jumped from the USS Abraham Lincoln this month in what his wife describes as a suicide attempt is now facing disciplinary action from the Navy, according to his wife and charging documents reviewed by MS NOW.

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Navy sailor who jumped off USS Lincoln faces disciplinary charges

The sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier who jumped overboard in an attempt to die by suicide has been charged with violations and could have his pay docked.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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songs2breakup2.bsky.social @songs2breakup2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Soul Blazer Illusion of Gaia Terranigma 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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songs2breakup2.bsky.social @songs2breakup2.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The worst thing that can be said about Starfield is the discourse, few games have inspired so many to so freely & frequently share their dog shit navel gazing thoughts on it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/06/2026

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

A screenshot of an article excerpt that reads:
Three years ago, Jessa Davis had an epiphany: After she came out as a trans woman, remaining in deep-red Texas felt untenable. So, she sold her house in Odessa and moved to the liberal bastion of Seattle, Wash.
Davis describes herself as a trans refugee. Back in Texas, she says, lived in a "pretty hostile and frankly dangerous" place. "I had a lot of close calls, a lot of threats."

From blue state to red
As Davis and others arrive in Seattle seeking refuge from hostile laws and rhetoric, some of Seattle's longtime residents, like Kirby Wilbur, have moved out, fleeing to conservative enclaves.
Wilbur also describes himself as a "refugee." He relates an experience that is a virtual mirror image of Davis'. In Seattle, the local conservative talk show host — who also briefly served as Washington state Republican chair — felt like a stranger in a strange land.
As he neared retirement, he and his wife Trina began thinking about an escape plan. A friend told them about McKinney, Texas, a conservative Dallas-Fort Worth suburb. Wilbur had never heard of McKinney, but decided to have a look.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12/05/2026

Thanks to freshly gerrymandered House maps across the country, the number of competitive districts will fall to a new low of 33 (or less) this year, and only 15 are true toss-ups.

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This year’s U.S. House elections will be least competitive on record

In 1976, 101 U.S. House seats were structurally competitive. Under the new 2026 maps, that number could fall to 33 — and just 15 are true toss-ups.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 12/05/2026

I struggle to adequately explain how any project of national rebuilding (a la Reconstruction v2, etc) will require the democratic party to fundamentally illegitimate republican rule. Not just in rhetoric but via explicit and overt acts of political dispossession, disenfranchisement, and ruination.

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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If anyone is "Pro-Israel" at this point, they are: -pro-rape -pro-torture -pro-murder -pro-genocide -pro-land theft -pro-starvation -pro-baby killing -pro-child murder -pro-mass murder -pro-rape by dogs -pro-forced amputation And countless other crimes. There is NO debating. It's all documented.

I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’
Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

Sexual torture of Palestinian detainees from Gaza in Israeli prisons is an "organised state policy", endorsed by the "highest, political, military, and judicial authorities", a new report has revealed.

The report, seen exclusively by Middle East Eye, is based on testimonies from Palestinian former prisoners gathered by the rights watchdog Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

It reveals how the scope of sexual violence of Palestinian prisoners, including rape using objects and trained military dogs, constitutes an "organised state policy", aided and abetted by Israeli institutions and leadership.

One former detainee, a 42-year-old woman from north Gaza who was held in the notorious Sde Teiman detention centre, said she was bound naked to a metal table and repeatedly raped by two masked soldiers over the course of two days.

She recalled that she was left shackled, naked and bleeding throughout the night before the soldiers returned the next day to continue raping her.

She said she wished for death and likened her experience to "another genocide behind walls".

Throughout her ordeal, she was filmed. Soldiers later showed her the footage while she was hung by her wrists under interrogation, threatening to publish the videos if she did not "cooperate".

Amir, a 35-year-old Palestinian man also held at Sde Teiman, recounted how soldiers forced him to strip naked, before their dogs urinated on him and raped him.

He described how the dog "penetrated my anus in a trained manner while I was being beaten".

"This continued for several minutes. I felt profoundly humiliated and violated."

Khaled Mahajna, an attorney with the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, described how a soldier in Sde Teiman inserted a fire extinguisher nozzle into a Palestinian prisoner’s anus and then discharged its contents into his body, resulting in severe internal injuries and intense pain.

'Etched into their memory'
Another former prisoner, 43-year-old Wajdi, recounted being shackled to a metal bed and repeatedly raped by soldiers and a trained dog.

"I felt severe pain in my anus and screamed, but every time I screamed, I was beaten. This continued for several minutes, while soldiers filmed and mocked me, Wajdi said.

"The soldier left after ejaculating inside me. I was left in a humiliating position. I wished for death. I was bleeding."

He said he was then untied and raped by the dog. Later, another soldier forced his penis into the victim’s mouth and urinated on him. Over the following days, the abuse continued, with repeated rapes carried out by multiple soldiers.

"This case is particularly devastating because it reflects an accumulation of almost every form of torture, physical, psychological, and moral, layered with systematic humiliation," Khaled Ahmed, a Euro-Med field researcher, told MEE.

"It also includes the deliberate use of multiple perpetrators and trained dogs as instruments of sexual violence. The result is not a single act of abuse, but an extended pattern of cruelty designed to destroy dignity, bodily integrity, and any sense of safety. These are acts that defy comprehension."

Victims said the attacks were filmed and often conducted in "well-equipped institutional logistical settings... intentionally designed to enable torture and sexual violence". The report said this evidenced the institutionalised nature of the violence.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

So are the headlines saying the Democrats won this round, or nah? Cause they did. Funding for TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, no funding for ICE. That’s the deal Dems have been offering over & over. Republicans caved.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/03/2026

Three days after the initial "ambush", planes and helicopters flew over San Martín, dropping bombs on the ruins of the same house that had already been burnt to the ground three days earlier and on another abandoned house. The Ecuadorian Armed Forces boasted about it on social media.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 25/03/2026

“Operation Total Extermination,” supposedly “supported, at the request of Ecuador, bilateral kinetic actions against cartel targets along the Colombia-Ecuador border.” Locals say the homes of small farmers were bombed and agricultural workers were taken and tortured.

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Farmers Describe Torture From US-Ecuadorian Joint Military Operation

A US official testified that the “Operation Total Extermination” attacks were “just the beginning” of a broader campaign.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

El-Sayed: Look, you know, narcissism is the endgame of Donald Trump’s personality. We think about it as having too much ego, but it’s actually having too little. His ego has become a black hole—nothing can satiate him. He reaches for power and money and fame and glory, and never gets enough.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 23/03/2026

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

the degenerate trump ii regime had the gall to libel somali-americans with a welfare fraud conspiracy while systematically defrauding prospective legal immigrants who perfectly followed the rules racists project their own criminal predations and ideations onto others

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