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Twitter (not x) refugee. Trying to find my peeps and keep a finger on the pulse of the universe.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 4h
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?
CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION
 
Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.
 
The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
 
➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h
Holy shit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1
Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
lol being picked by a man is NOT a reward. It shouldn't even be a goal.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨Really important voter registration deadlines coming up: 10/4 - Alaska, Rhode Island & South Carolina 10/5 - Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas Make sure you're registered & spread the word
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The New York Times pushed Trumpian lies on the economy (are they selling MAGA hats?) deanbaker22.substack.com/p/new-york-t...
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New York Times Pushes Trumpian Lies on the Economy
Positive spin is not the same as outright lies
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A useful political rule: don't design the rules assuming your team will always be in charge.⁣ ⁣ Eventually, the big red button changes hands. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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My Libertarian Friends Were Right
Do economists have a political bias? What should we do about that?
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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him
cat on a statue
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
“The playing field of the social media informational environment is uneven, and it systematically benefits autocracies.” www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
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Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation
Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A very timely and important new paper: “How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States
Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's a sad commentary on America that so many were so willing to bend the knee - universities with endowments in the billions, law firms that print money, corporate media whose rights are enshrined in the Constitution- making business decisions it was more expedient to buy him off than fight.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What starts with nonwhite immigrants won't end there.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As we suspected:
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/09/2026
"Double circle November 3 with a dark Sharpie. Because the key No Kings event will be Election Day."
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Trump Wants to Exhaust Us. He’s Failing.
Election Day is eight weeks away.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
many states, including California, also have an option to drop your ballot off directly at a elections office dropbox or election center and avoid USPS on the way back all together, which I'd recommend if possible.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I missed this when it came out in August, but the Post editorial board is now just a mouthpiece for fact-free claims by the Trump administration now. This is just demonstrably wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Medicaid needs stronger work requirements
About 59 percent of nondisabled adults on Medicaid did not work in 2024, according to a think tank's estimate.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the verified fundraiser that will help Pierre Damas Bel's family with his funeral and repatriation costs. www.gofundme.com/f/pierre-dam...
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Donate to Pierre Damas Bel's Family Needs Care After His Loss, organized by Fidler Barb
In memory of Pierre Damas Bel Pierre Damas Bel was a 20-year-old … Fidler Barb needs your support for Pierre Damas Bel's Family Needs Care After His Loss
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
She was there. Unlike that narcissistic, bloated, spray-tanned piece of excrement, she was actually there: Showing empathy. Transcending party. Helping. Leading. No AI slop. No asinine stories. No bullshit. Never forget...
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026
You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There is simply no reason why ANYONE who isn’t a white supremacist to invoke the term “woke.” To do so now validates its racist misappropriation and keeps its misuse in circulation.
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Abby Dernburg @adernburg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Biomedical scientists - a reminder that NIH proposes to "improve" peer review by hiding impact scores from Program Officers and applicants, and binning applications into broad categories of "Most competitive,""Competitive," or "Not discussed." Please provide feedback before the October 13 deadline!
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unpopular opinion: When someone is factually wrong about something important—eg vaccination—telling them that they’re wrong is treating them with respect. The condescending thing to do is indulge them, act like they have a point, as if the thing you know to be wrong might be at least somewhat right.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A reminder as people hit the road for Labor Day weekend.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Courts don't take a “recantation” seriously unless the recantation takes the form of sworn testimony contradicting specific and material elements of the earlier testimony.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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