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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

The only thing this headline lacks is the phrase, “in a chainsaw-involved incident.”

After 500 trees fall at D.C. golf course Trump wants remade, foes ask judge for halt
Preservationists said they were told the East Potomac Golf Links operation went "faster than anticipated" and "hundreds of additional trees" are now slated for removal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

"The investigation, nicknamed 'World War Eleven' within the administration because of the uproar it could cause, has accelerated in recent weeks, the senior official said." wapo.st/4hTG5zP

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar’s D.C. home

Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, executed the search.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 7h

More than 400 trees were cut down in D.C.'s East Potomac Park this weekend. A furious federal judge said the government failed to give proper notice of the work amid an ongoing lawsuit.

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Furious judge orders freeze after 400 trees are cut down in East Potomac Park

The Trump administration says the tree removal has nothing to do with the president’s plan to renovate the park into a championship-level golf course.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 8h

if you said in 2024 that Donald Trump would send federal agents to raid the homes of Democratic Congresspeople on fake criminal charges you would be dismissed as hysterical

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 8h

I realize it often feels like nothing matters anymore, but a comedian going on SNL and calling women whores— calling the ordinary women he sees at the gym *whores* — because of their clothes matters to me. It’s really gross, and I’m glad Levy said something.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 8h

Two things feel different right now: 1. The right has somehow gotten lazier, and no longer even tries to make the bulls**t they make up seem plausible. 2. Everyone else - mainstream news - have all started to work from the assumption these things are made up. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-james...

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MAGA’s Talarico Mental Breakdown Conspiracy Implodes—Instantly

The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?

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Nick Peterson @thetecheng.bsky.social · 8h

I strongly encourage Oregonians not to vote for Troy Jackson

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 10h

It's not at all hyperbolic to say the president is trying to denaturalize and deport my congressional representative

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Virginia Data Center Ran
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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 20h

im trying to document this Talarico conspiracy theory and i don't think i can possibly top this one right-wing conspiracy brain is so advanced that they are accusing their own conspiracies of being false flags

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12h

It is hilarious how a fake Talarico story promoted by the prediction markets revealed how much garbage information prediction markets provide

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

1) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown 2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."

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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.

We love our Somali neighbors.

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 11h

National Democrats are pumping millions into the race for Florida attorney general, a powerful post Democrats haven't won in the entire 21st century. But the political climate and an ongoing scandal gives Republican James Uthmeier (pictured) reason to worry about Jose Javier Rodriguez.

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Morning Digest: Democrats make late investment in race for Florida attorney general

Ron DeSantis’ hand-picked incumbent remains embroiled in the "Hope Florida" scandal

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10h

Fox News is reporting this is a criminal investigation into the immigration paperwork filled out by Ilhan Omar’s late father when she was a child 40 years ago. I actually think this is so nakedly outrageous it will blow back on them. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports

US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21h

last time I tooled around on a brand new X account it took me less than a minute to hit a high-octane slur, but I thought, hey, maybe John’s right and it’s changed. had a stopwatch going this time, 73 seconds

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

D+15 Midterm indicator

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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Though the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education mandated school desegregation, many Central Florida counties struggled to comply. In Orange County, that led to a 1962 lawsuit that placed it under federal oversight until 2010 www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/10/11/o...

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Orlando Sentinel 150: Central Florida’s transformation from segregation to a gorgeous mosaic

Between clashes with Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan from yesteryear to modern uprisings against social injustice, the area’s transformation is not linear but veers toward progress.

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Steven Lemongello @stevelemongello.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Population booms turned Central Florida into a multicultural hub. But over the decades, the promise of opportunity and dreams of a new life came amid periods of terror and discrimination for many, particularly Black people and immigrants. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/10/11/o...

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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well, this should be an interesting job:

It’s a LinkedIn job listing for a “historian” to work for Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/10/2026

Today’s GOP has significantly narrowed its definition of its preferred kind of immigrant to one “defined not by people’s education, potential, or ties to the country, but simply by whether they are white and Christian,” @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

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The GOP’s Message to Immigrants

Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 09/10/2026

oh they dead dead

All the waffle houses in Pensacola are closed with the hurricane about to hit

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

25 days until the midterms:

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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Dirt @mbdeed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trying to silence the applause Pilay says, "If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump."

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 27/02/2025

mike ditka used to have a branded resort in kissimmee florida and there were lots of staged photos of mike ditka hanging out in it. i will post a bunch of them now. sorry for hte low resolution these are from like 2008

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Shot chaser etc

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BREAKING: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event, and they assume one in 2027, per Axios

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...