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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/08/2026
A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:
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Hec @thefeverishflux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What’s Kent Tekulve doing next to Bad Bunny on a Latin radio station billboard in #Miami? 🤔 #CardSky
Billboard of Latin radio station featuring an artist who looks and is dressed like Kent Tekulve.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100 years ago.
The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
syracuse.com
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Whatever we do after all this, please let a vengeance tour remember the DOGE boys
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Let this radicalize you
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"The intent here was vile, stacking the deck to give 41.4% of Florida voters control of 85% of Florida’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. And lawmakers knew what they were doing — what DeSantis had commanded them to do." - Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board 🎁🔗
orlandosentinel.com
Editorial: Florida lawmakers let voters down
The redrawing of congressional districts approved this week is an insult to voters’ intelligence and a dismissal of Fair Districts amendments they passed in 2008.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief.

The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
texasobserver.org
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/04/2026
The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office.
propublica.org
Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump
Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/03/2026
6/ Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment. It’s rooted in the concept of fetal personhood: that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Trump thinks the dangerous part here is the stretch when Iran *didn't* have the means to make a bomb and thinks we should all applaud him for changing that and making all this possible again
Iranian Enriched Uranium chart
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“A foundational rule of computer security is to never create a ‘single point of failure,’ meaning a centralized system or node whose compromise wld cause widespread damage.” The Trump administration’s “SAVE” voter purge system—an underreported key part of the “Save America Act”—violates this rule.
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Why the Trump-Backed SAVE America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide - Bucks County Beacon
Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns and controlled by the Trump administra...
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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NPR @npr.org · 08/03/2026
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/03/2026
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
propublica.org
Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/02/2026
SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...
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Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg
Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
so in conclusion, the state of the union is actually very bad because a man who tried to end democracy is using the government to personally enrich himself and his buddies while executing citizens and noncitizens alike
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Last weekend. This weekend. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/01/2026
We've gone from broken windows policing to breaking windows policing.
Like a Military Occupation':
Clashes Rise With Federal
Agents in Minneapolis
Arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents.

An agent broke a passing driver's car window before multiple agents eventually pulled her from her car.
David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
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NPR @npr.org · 04/01/2026
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Here is the 255-page Jack Smith deposition transcript. The House Judiciary Committee just released it. Don't let it get buried and obscured with all the bs news Trump and his thugs are going to flood us with.
judiciary.house.gov
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/12/2025
“In the deposition, a confident, candid and straight-to-the-point Smith described in great detail why he believed he had enough evidence to not only try but convict President Donald Trump of conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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House Republicans release transcript and video of Jack Smith's closed-door testimony before Judiciary Committee
The former special counsel who brought charges against Trump during the Biden administration had wanted to testify in public, but Republicans refused his request.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
House bill extending health care credits heads to floor — but without support of any #Florida Republican, even though FL has more Obamacare sign-ups than any other state. floridapolitics.com/archives/770...
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House bill extending health care credits heads to floor — but without support of any Florida Republican
Carlos Giménez and María Elvira Salazar favored more modest compromises rejected by House GOP leadership.
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Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Habba and her two siblings were born in Summit, New Jersey. Their parents were Chaldean Catholics who emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the early 1980s to escape
persecution in their home country.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way. One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13/11/2025
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter.

Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money.

What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/11/2025
A majority of the corporate donors who have been named as donors to President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project have received government contracts in recent years, according to a report released Monday by a watchdog group.
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Most Trump Ballroom Donors Have Federal Contracts, Watchdog Says
A majority of the corporate donors who have been named as donors to President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project have received government contracts in recent years, according to a report released Monday by a watchdog group.
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Ben Daniel (he/him) @revbennyd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000
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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing
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Open Measures @openmeasures.io · 02/10/2025
American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans." We checked the data. That wasn't true. openmeasures.io/american-eag...
openmeasures.io
Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
There is a difference between righteous anger, directed at injustice, and hateful anger, directed at those who are different. Authoritarian regimes deliberately conflate the two to silence criticism and create false equivalence. It's important we don't let those in power succeed in this endeavor.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
the president just said the military should start shooting american civilians if they want to
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
nytimes.com
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 11/08/2025
Donald Trump has personally incited more crime in Washington DC than perhaps anyone else living. He pardoned violent criminals who attacked our Capitol and put them back in American communities. He even made a man who was filmed urging the crowd to kill DC police officers a senior adviser at DOJ.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Fox News shows mentioned Sydney Sweeney and her jeans ad 766 times in the span of a week. Jeffrey Epstein's name came up 53 times that same week, per @andrewkirell.bsky.social in today's Reliable Sources cnn.it/4foQAtk
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2025
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”
propublica.org
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Just right here, right out in the great wide open, the Trump administration is preparing to release scrubbed Epstein files and then trot out a freshly pardoned Maxwell to say how innocent Trump is of everything while saying only Democrats are pedophiles. The most transparent corruption imaginable.
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