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@tenacious--t.bsky.social
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cat parent, recovering lawyer, and proud Californian

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
Today in "absolutely not"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h
Time for this classic again.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h
A disabled Downey resident was detained Tuesday shortly before 10 a.m. by masked individuals during what appeared to be a federal immigration operation near Smallwood Avenue and 4th Street.
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texans, time to vote like our lives depend on it! Early VOTING in Texas begins October 19. Please check your registration now! Vote in person if you can.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pedro Mendoza Chavez was caught up in ICE's dragnet in San Antonio, leaving him hospitalized with head injury that required stitches. His wife has no idea where he is and has not been able to speak with him.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
Learn how to get measles from a rapist
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Lady Di @ladydi2020.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is where we are at. The U.S. was the only one to oppose… 😡 #Pinks
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WATCH: A group of ICE goons beat a man they were detaining after they'd already wrestled him to the floor in Naples, Florida on Wednesday night. Bystanders began to yell that they were filing when the ICE goons punched the man repeatedly.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, damn 😳
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped publishing the narratives.
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The Federal Agency That’s Supposed to Protect Consumers Just Made Another Business-Friendly Move
Debt collection. Credit reporting. Payday loans. Consumer complaints to a federal database used to help reveal issues and bring accountability. Then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stopped pu...
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Vox @vox.com · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins cast the pivotal vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. He then helped overturn Roe v. Wade four years later. Now she’s battling for her Senate seat in the midterms, and abortion rights groups are betting that voters haven’t forgotten how she contributed to the fall of Roe.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE goons violently breached a mother's bedroom door in Oregon, shoving a gun directly in the face of her and her infant child.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
BASH: He's a US citizen MARKWAYNE MULLIN: He wasn't arrested BASH: He was arrested. He was later released, but he was arrested. Do Americans need to carry around proof of citizenship now? MULLIN: If you're a citizen, you have no reason to fear
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/09/2026
NEW: A federal judge has ruled that Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies continue to search and arrest Latino drivers at a higher rate, echoing the racial disparities that prompted court oversight of the department nearly two decades ago. with @azluminaria.org
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Judge Denies Efforts to End Oversight of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as Racial Profiling of Latinos Persists
Deputies continue to search and arrest Latino drivers at a higher rate than white drivers, echoing the racial disparities that prompted court oversight of the department nearly two decades ago.
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm so sorry for everyone who has lost a beloved pet. Current pet-havers of BlueSky, could you please upload like a BUNCH of pet posts & photos so we don't learn about your sweet baby for like the first time after they die?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's like why am I surprised by anything anymore and yet...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
ICE agent Christian Castro - who shot Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis and lied about it, and who TX Governor Abbott refused to extradite - has been ARRESTED by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. www.startribune.com/minnesota-of...
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ICE agent wanted in Metro Surge shooting is booked into Hennepin County Jail
Christian Castro will now appear in state court one day ahead of his federal court proceedings.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/09/2026
A bill is quietly moving through Congress that would broaden DHS' power to surveil anyone shopping in a strip mall or picking up groceries. Retailers shouldn't be deputized to help ICE.
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How the retail crime bill could bolster ICE
Concerns are mounting that organized retail crime-fighting legislation, which passed the U.S. House and is now before the Senate, could drag retailers into mass deportations that have little to do wit...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
no thank you to the killing of endangered species (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Indeed, We The People Should Be Getting The Same Healthcare And Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Beaten in the street for being brown 🤬
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/09/2026
Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how it’s done.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 08/09/2026
Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion—meaning for the first time, a woman in the state can choose to end her pregnancy at any point, without a prosecutor looking over her doctor’s shoulder.
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Massachusetts Decriminalized Later Abortion, No Health Emergency Required
Massachusetts law no longer imposes a gestational-age limit on abortion, meaning women can get abortions throughout any point in pregnanct.
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
LOL when he breathes he lies
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
wow f*ck that guy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026
I'm personally encouraging people to vote early and in person. Krissy and I are going to vote early at our county elections office on the first day early voting is available, and then we are going to get lunch. It's a voting date!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026
Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
what an absolute D*CK (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
NEW: the man who attacked Amy Acton is the brother of a Ramaswamy donor who worked for Husted’s campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/patric...
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Armed man arrested after pushing toward Amy Acton is brother of Ramaswamy donor who quit Husted campaign
Patrick Havas, 38, was arrested Sunday while carrying two pistols and a Taser. His brother, Andrew Havas, gave more than $10,102 to Vivek Ramaswamy and resigned from Jon Husted’s campaign after scruti...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HANDS OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS!   Chaco Canyon, Oak Flat, Yosemite, and 44 million acres of our national forests. Standing strong against this Administration’s land grab—in Congress, in the courts, and in our communities!
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Rep. Stansbury: Hands off our public lands!
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If Barack Obama had done this, every Sunday show would have talked about nothing else.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
NEW: An armed individual lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Dr. Amy Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, resulting in the injuries of multiple people who were nearby. A suspect is in custody. www.wlwt.com/article/amy-...
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Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured
Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.
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tenacious--t.bsky.social @tenacious--t.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yeah, like Patton Oswalt said seriously guys don't mess with our *good friends* at ICE
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
BLANCHE: Trust me. The withheld Epstein files are all duplicates and the redactions are all victims. Of course, we redefined “duplicate” and let people self-identify as victims without checking. But trust me. That’s why I’m suing for the redaction training videos.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A January 6 rioters who filmed himself drinking Fireball in Nancy Pelosi's office visited another government office this week: Todd Blanche's. It sure doesn't sound like the payout fund for insurrectionists is dead.
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