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S. S. Newbery

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Author of an artist's book of palladium prints as a homage to Goya's *Los Caprichos* (1799). Doing lots of watercolor these days.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 6h
Keep it going, y’all. Let’s do Axon next.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h
Fuck this shit. Vote early. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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DHS shoots New York man with five-year-old in car
Federal agents surrounded and fired into the man's vehicle, reportedly with a young child inside.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
I keep thinking of the soldiers convicted of war crimes in his first term that he pardoned. Hegseth was deeply involved with that. time.com/7176342/pete...
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Pete Hegseth's Role in Trump’s Controversial Pardons of Men Accused of War Crimes
Pete Hegseth advocated for Trump to intervene on behalf of service members in three cases involving war crime accusations in 2019.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
I've been arguing that Trump's fraudulent Fraud Task Force looked like Stephen Miller disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
Miller is also in touch multiple times a week with the Deputy Attorney General's office to discuss fraud and immigration cases, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h
🔥 from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. I would add: billionaires are a renewable resource, sadly. Five years ago there was no OpenAI or Anthropic. We mint billionaires here in California with some regularity. The movement of capital moves both ways. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
Some, perhaps, have legitimate fears that any wealth tax will just cause the rich to flee to other states. Prop 40 has been designed to make it hard to wriggle out of, but this fear is a perpetual one. Cities hear this when they pass local taxes; States hear it when they pass state taxes; nations hear it when they pass national taxes. It is true that the mobility of capital and the relative lack of mobility of labor is an inherent problem that makes the class war more difficult. It is also true that this is the sort of perpetual objection that is crafted to ensure that nobody anywhere ever does anything about a big problem. A global wealth tax would be ideal. In the meantime, every single locality and state and nation should be doing everything they can to capture as much of billionaire’s wealth as possible and funnel it back to the public. California, home of the tech industry, is the most sensible state in which to pass a billionaire tax. If the billionaires want to make it their life’s work to run around the world fleeing taxes, let them flee. What a sad life that would be for a group of people who could be doing anything.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16h
Also, I want to highlight this part of the case for all the pilots and avgeeks out there. I’ve heard ICE is doing this with manifests from a number of sources, but this is, as far as I know, the first confirmation. Really shows the complicity of the pilot-in-command. This was an Omni flight.
In the latest court filing, ICE officials did not deny any of his claims, and appeared to confirm at least one of them, saying the charter flight's manifest—a printed receipt given to pilots listing all passengers and crew on a flight—
"served as the travel document."
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h
Seen in Wicker Park
Street mural with pigeon on a stack of books and words saying READ THE ARTICLE
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/10/2026
Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups are citing recent ICE activity near voting sites and new evidence of intimidation as they expand a lawsuit seeking to keep armed federal agents away from polling places during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls
Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.
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Jean Walsh @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Credit where credit is due! This is how it should be. Not a single canceled AC Transit bus!
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S. S. Newbery @ssnewbery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh Rebecca!!! I'm so glad you're (basically) OK, but I really hope the driver learned a lesson and won't ever do that again!!
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 07/10/2026
Via @kathrynpost.bsky.social: “I don’t have words,” (Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez, who helped organize a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall) said in Spanish, holding his wife and children… “Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in prayer.” religionnews.com/2026/10/07/i...
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Immigrant who helped set off Delaney Hall hunger strike released from ICE custody
ELIZABETH, New Jersey (RNS) — 'I don’t have words,' Martín Alonso Soto Hernandez said in Spanish while holding his wife and two children. 'Thank you so much for everything. I always, always stayed in ...
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 07/10/2026
btw I think our warehouse map is better than ICE's official one.
A map depicting the locations of seven vacant warehouses purchased by ICE to be used as detention centers.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
But of course.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 06/10/2026
The leading automated license plate reader manufacturer, Flock, does not just read license plates anymore, but deploys an AI-driven system that police can use to track people. Matthew Cavedon and Laura Bondank-Harmon explain what safeguards should be enacted and the obstacles to enforcing them.
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The Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI Surveillance
Flock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
My new employer, The American @prospect.org, is doing its fall fundraiser! TAP is a nonprofit unionized magazine with no paywall & no programmatic ads. I'm at TAP rn due to a generous grant, which won't last forever. Please help them raise their budget & tell them I sent you.✊ prospect.org/donate
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Help us speak truth to power.
This year, we decided to take a risk and turn off programmatic advertising on our site. We’re making a bet that our readers will respond to us aligning our editorial values with our business model. We...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From a light-seeking alga came the key to controlling single neurons in the living brain. Hegemann and Nagel’s protein, turned by Deisseroth into an optical switch, activates circuits in ms and shows how memories, emotions and actions arise. An epochal leap for #neuroscience. #NobelPrize2026 🧪
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is great, though the settlement is a fraction of the harm done. During the pre-Prop 22 era gig driver companies underpriced rides via cheap labor & VC funding, to undercut public transit & get customers hooked. Allowing them to operate illegally contributed to our current transit crisis.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Bike East Bay @bikeeastbay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy Friday! In our most recent Bikeside Chat, we talk with Bruce Beyaert from TRAC, about how the city of Richmond built 36 miles of San Francisco Bay Trail – far more than any other city on this planned 500-mile multi-purpose trail. Check it out at BikeEastBay.org/Podcast!
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Podcast - Bike East Bay
Bike East Bay chats with local champions from Contra Costa and Alameda Counties who create positive change via inspiring bikey projects
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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 03/10/2026
If a human driver crashed into a bus every week we would rescind their license
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This tragedy occurred on a street where the county recently completed a “pedestrian safety” project, but which local advocates pushed back against due to the lack of physical traffic calming & bike infrastructure. The warnings were ignored.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cities across the country have gotten the message that residents hate Flock cameras. But one growing response is to replace them with *other* license plate readers (like from Axon, makers of the Taser), as if the brand name is the concern. @thorbenson.bsky.social has the story.
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License Plate and Switch - The American Prospect
Cities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing! The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s Trump increasing the trade deficit by being a repulsive, tyrannical pig. Or, I guess in his mind (because he’s also pig *ignorant*) he’d say they’re ripping us off by refusing to vacation here.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I cannot find a single TV news story on this.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this isn’t real life it’s a clip from veep, right??
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3 sorties of PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels and 4 official ships operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 1 out of 3 sorties entered Taiwan’s southwestern part ADIZ.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So is Todd gonna personally present the case to the Ft. Pierce grand jury or….? Because if you can’t even persuade Joe DiGenova or Kurt Olsen to do it….who’s left?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
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Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/09/2026
IT'S OFFICIAL. The progressive members of the Chicago City Council (looking at you, @andrefor40th.bsky.social) stopped ICE's cruelest, most notorious charter airline, Omni Air International. news.wttw.com/2026/09/28/f...
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Firm Set to Buy Chicago’s Parking Meters Sells Airline That Carried Out Deportations
More than a dozen progressive members of the City Council said they would not vote in favor of the deal unless the firm sold Omni Air, threatening the completion of the deal involving the city’s 36,00...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you have experience FOIAing cities for airport cameras, I need help please.
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
from the former editor-in-chief of Germany's Thüringer Allgemeine: “AfD are nationalists. And if nationalists come to power, there will be a desire to divide Poland up with the Russians. I would advise Poles to start slowly fortifying the border along the Oder and Lusatian Neisse.”
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AfD ma być wielka. „Pojawi się chęć podzielenia się Polską z Rosjanami”
Nacjonalistyczna AfD uważa, że już przejęła w Niemczech przewodnią rolę CDU. – Jak przejmie władzę, pojawi się chęć podzielenia się Polską z Rosjanami – wieszcz
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 27/09/2026
We are super small potatoes in the grand scheme of things. But the number of times a larger publication has linked to SAM.gov or a report through our newsletter (psst, we can tell because you don't delete the UTM code) without crediting our reporting is way too high.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When I was in my early/mid 20s, I played pro basketball overseas, relying on the team to navigate everything from housing to phone service to immigration. I had to trust that they — & the country I was essentially an invited guest in — would protect me. Schools here can’t make this promise anymore.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning” This is excellent reporting on the destruction of the CDC. Kennedy is every bit as horrible & dangerous as you think he is, maybe even worse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I know this is cheesy as hell, but I mean it with my whole heart: Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word ✊
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5
Hold Room 1(820.78 sq. ft.)
With 87 people
(out of 193 people total)
Lying Down/Sitting
Diagram showing the largest tenth-floor hold room containing eighty-seven detainees in which each rectangle represents one lying-down detainee with the average height and shoulder width of an adult man and each circle represents one sitting-down detainee with the average shoulder width of an adult man. PX303, Ex. 1.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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