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@theskepticalone.bsky.social
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Arsenal fan. Anti-zealots of all stripes. Getting run over in both directions in the middle of the road. Science is the way, whether you like the outcome or not.

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Newton @theskepticalone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Gavin Newsom announces that California will tax 100% of all funds any Californian receives from Trump's January 6th slush fund.
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citizen190.bsky.social @citizen190.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hamas spent over $1 billion to build over 350 miles of tunnels, funded by a combination of international aid diversions, foreign state backing (primarily Iran), and taxes on the local populace. They could have built a prosperous state. Instead, they chose terror. honestreporting.com/hamas-spent-...
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▶ Hamas Spent $1B on Tunnels Instead of Investing in a Future for Gaza’s People | HonestReporting
At Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, we’re shedding light on Gaza’s underground terror network. Hamas built 350 miles of tunnels—not to protect civilians, but
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Joe Daniels @joe-daniels.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If Republicans feel really strongly about getting taxpayers to pay for Trump's golden ballroom, they should go out there and hold some town halls with their constituents. They can bring photos of the chandeliers and maybe a sample of the marble for them to look at. I'm sure it'll be a big hit!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We don't know which Cabinet secretary will be forced to resign next, but we know it'll be either Brooke Rollins or Linda McMahon because they're the last two women left.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The White House denies rumors Trump is hospitalized at Walter Reed which must mean that Trump is hospitalized at Walter Reed.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#SendBarronToWar
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/03/2026
Okay, so, the firms that rolled over and showed Trump their bellies ended up humiliating themselves for nothing, and the firms that showed even a little bit of fight ended up winning. I think there is a lesson to be learned here!
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Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions
The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
Today should be your 38th birthday..
When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
With Trump, there's always a tweet.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is why I have no fks to give to this US administration, classless, ignorant and absolute assholes.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
BREAKING: DOJ moves to drop criminal charges in alleged shovel/broom attack in Minneapolis that led ICE to open fire. "Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit," prosecutors say. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
MEMPHIS: “Memphis Safe Task Force” (U.S. marshal) caught KICKING A PUPPY 😳 as they arrested a guy for on a drug warrant “He was harmless. There’s no reason he should’ve done that.” @GovBillLee this is what we’re paying $1 Million a day for?🤔 Full: wreg.com/news/video-u...
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.” #ICEoffOurStreets #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)
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Paul Lander @paullander.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Megyn Kelly needs to change her name to Karyn.
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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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S K USA 🪖👠🌎🗽♻️ @victor-laszlo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Miller's MO...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026
if Tom "Cava Bag" Homan is your emergency crisis comms guy, you're fucked
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
He died because he stepped forward instead of away, because he put himself between human beings and monsters who wanted to hurt them, because he did the thing we teach, the thing we praise, the thing we raise our children to believe still matters. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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They Killed a Nurse. They Killed a Poet.
Tyranny in uniform. Trauma by design.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
DHS: ‘Trust us, he was no choir boy’ World: ‘He was in fact a choir boy, Boy Scout, ICU nurse and all around stand up guy who died being a hero at the hands of absolute ICE zeros’.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Some photos of MAGA protesting with guns and not being murdered.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They say “where’s the gun?” — After the shots Because they don’t realize one of them had already taken it — before the shots
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It appears he was zip-tied when murdered. It also sounds like the agents (CBP) saw quickly this was an unjustified shooting. The shooter should be charged—but remember that statements by Bovino and Miller on quotas and immunity, and Noem cutting training by 60%, helped produce this nightmare.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was murdered while trying to protect a woman from being assaulted by federal agents
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Is it too early to call them death squads?
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Robin (aka BeatriceBadass1) | The Ordor motor pool @robinrs.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
DHS is just putting out propaganda to cover up that their officer once again murdered a US citizen. They’re putting out their narrative but can’t answer a single question about details because the details we can see on video contradict everything they’re saying.
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Croohur @ballaug.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Have you seen this, looks like an agent pulls the gun from victims waistband BEFORE shooting starts bsky.app/profile/eoin...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
LIVE NOW on-the-ground in Minneapolis after another person was killed by federal agents.
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BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Agar86 @agarv.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Republican congressional leaders remaining silent
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.
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Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Canadians took massive casualties fighting the American war in Afghanistan. Trump says we never stepped up. JD Vance says he's sick of our "sob stories". MP Jamil Jivani is best friends with Vance. Will he deliver a simple message from Canada? Trump and Vance can go F--k themselves. Never again.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨"We wonder why people in the 1930s were quiet, we need to show we weren't quiet. History is gonna look back at all the people that didn't show up—their grandkids are gonna ask what were they doing! It's like -10 degrees and we're here!" -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW⬇️
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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version @ladylinds.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Add Marcos Charles to the list of the American Nuremberg Trial Defendants
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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
From Steve Simon, MN Secy of State. ICE agents chase down and handcuff a child in negative temperatures while he's saying "I'm legal". How is this making us safer? #ProudBlue 📹: @MNSteveSimon/X
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Reno Wallabout @renowallabout.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You know I’m starting to think Tottenham would be better with Harry Kane
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.
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Newton @theskepticalone.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a frame-by-frame look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Say what you want, but Massie has game.
Screenshot of an X.com post by Thomas Massie that begins, ‘Psst, Denmark…’ and jokes that telling the administration the Epstein files are in Greenland would make them lose interest and never find them.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"Kavanaugh stops" have quickly expanded to become "Kavanaugh body tackles" and other forms of "Kavanaugh assaults." Sadly, the odds are very high that there will be soon be "Kavanaugh summary executions" of Americans whom ICE agents decide aren't Americans.
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