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A grassroots public interest newswire amplifying stories from struggles for social, racial, and environmental justice. Posts by Andy Stepanian. sparrowmedia.net

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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Iran, China, and groups like IntelEye in Israel used swarms of AI agents in novel ways this summer to create first-of-their-kind influence campaigns on social media. Sadly, this may be the first of many operations like this one @sheeraf.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...
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Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns (Gift Article)
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 17/09/2026
FBI issued a thinly-sourced security alert warning "a small group of women" might be creating fake "tradwife" dating profiles to ensnare and embarrass ICE agents, as revealed in intel docs we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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FBI warned ICE agents could be targeted by fake ‘tradwife’ dating profiles, memo reveals
Exclusive: Internal FBI memo, reviewed by the Guardian, said women wanted to dox and ‘embarrass’ agents, but provided few details
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 31/08/2026
DHS and the intelligence centers it bankrolls are targeting as a terrorist threat a website that tracks ICE contractors, as revealed in intel documents we obtained and shared w/ @usatoday.com. #FOIA www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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A mom's website shows who profits from ICE. Why Feds call it a 'threat'
A Texas stay-at-home mom created a website showing companies profiting from ICE. It led to hundreds of protests. Feds called the site a "national threat."
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The Capytistas @capytistas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The world's richest oligarch isn't just America's problem. He's on a mission to reshape as much of Europe as possible into the white nationalist, regulation-free dystopia of his dreams and your nightmares.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New from me: The Trump Regime keeps coming for SPLC. Their latest indictment is chock-full of salacious details designed to isolate Heidi Beirich from Civil Society. But since they couldn't even get her job title correct, I don't buy it. www.altrightdelete.news/p/revenge-of...
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Revenge of the White Supremacists
In solidarity with Heidi Beirich
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Candace Owens built an elaborate conspiracy theory about who killed Charlie Kirk. Her crackerjack sources? A kombucha brewer, a far-right lawyer, and a Kremlin-loving model — all cashing in. I spent way too much time tracking them all in a new series for MS NOW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnNw...
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Who Killed Charlie Kirk? How conspiracy theories sparked a MAGA civil war
YouTube video by MS NOW
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The Capytistas @capytistas.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Rule by the elite, wealthy few is possible through specific institutional mechanisms by which wealthy elites convert economic power into governmental power. These are the key areas where oligarchs have taken control.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 29/06/2026
Due to Trump's gutting of election security infrastructure, states fear the feds won't reliably share election threat info, turning instead to industry to defend the American vote. As revealed in docs we obtained and shared w/ @sarahdwire.bsky.social / @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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States don't expect feds to reliably share election threats: Exclusive
State election officials say federal agencies are failing to provide security support needed for midterms.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 08/04/2026
Big: The White House initially blocked distribution of the FBI's intelligence report on supposed Iranian threats to the US, but we got it. And we shared it w/ @reuters.com @tedhesson.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social. #FOIA www.reuters.com/world/us/int...
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Exclusive: Intelligence report warned of Iran's 'persistent threat' to US as White House downplayed the risk
The FBI warned U.S. state and ​local law enforcement of an elevated threat posed by Iran's government to targets in the United States last month even as ‌the White House sought to downplay the likelih...
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 30/03/2026
The Trump administration is targeting ICE tracking apps and their developers as security threats, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @newyorker.com. #FOIA www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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ICE-Tracking Apps Have Helped People Avoid Immigration Agents. Are They Legal?
ICEBlock was meant to help people avoid immigration enforcement. The Trump Administration claims that the app endangered the agents of its mass-deportation campaign.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Sorry I've been a bit dormant. Working on something significant. Love you all.
Light illuminates a small portion of a bouquet that is largely enveloped by shadows.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A decade of sensitive data from children's brain scans left the NIH and ended up in the hands of white supremacists who cherry picked from it's findings to create reporting to support bias "race science" papers that later became source material for Grok and ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities
The rapid response networks people organized to defend their communities against federal agents seeking to kidnap, brutalize, and terrorize them have undergone a whirlwind evolution to keep up with...
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 14/01/2026
BIG: The case for Tren de Aragua being invading narco-terrorists, key to Trump's attacks on Venezuela and immigrant communities at home, is just another manufactured threat, as revealed in a trove of intel documents we provided to @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
At most, Tren De Aragua in the US amounts to little more than organized retail theft and small scale prostitution. The "gang" has almost no footprint inside the US at all, and yet Trump and DHS used the specter of an illusive "TDA" to cast a wide net that insnared thousands latine folks in the US.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 19/12/2025
BIG: FBI using Trump's broad "anti-antifa" order to target anti-ICE organizing as anarchist extremist terrorism, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA
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Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US
Internal report shared with Guardian shows FBI has launched cases in 23 regions, some linked to Trump memo on thwarting ‘terroristic activities’
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 09/12/2025
More seriously, Benz is going to attempt to "Twitter Files" USAID. We can assume he is coordinating with his white supremacist colleague and armpit stain in human form, Darren Beattie, overseeing the effort at State. Be forewarned: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem...
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The Extremist at the State Department is Doing Exactly What We Thought He Would
Explaining the latest Trump Administration enemies list (yes, another one)
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 02/12/2025
The Trump regime has been busy dismantling American democracy, but we've been busy fighting back! We've been furiously exposing Trump and his co-conspirators. This Giving Tuesday, fight back with us by helping Property of the People continue our critical mission! propertyofthepeople.org/donate/
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 21/11/2025
BIG: FBI spied on Signal group chat of immigration activists CourtWatch, classifying them as violent terrorist extremists for quietly sitting in on court cases, as revealed in intel bulletin we obtained & shared w/ @samtlevin.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 23/10/2025
BIG: Federal and local law enforcement agencies spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats, bolstering Trump's mass deportation frenzy, as revealed in new intelligence documents we obtained and shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats
Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files show
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
It should. And we have to try. Democracy is always in the effort, in the growth, in becoming better versions of what we imagine. But we need more noise, more outrage, more calls to congress & DHS & Bondi, more signatures for petitions calling for his release. www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...
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Can Public Outrage and Protest Save Journalist Mario Guevara Like It Did Jimmy Kimmel? | Common Dreams
Mario Guevara's legal team wants a federal judge to free the Salvadoran journalist, who faces "imminent" deportation from the United States after being arrested while covering a June "No Kings" prot...
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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
1/ While everyone is focused on Comey, Trump did this today. How many more of us will be targeted? How many rounded up? How many designated terrorists and prosecuted before those who remain on the sidelines finally open their eyes to what’s happening? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In Dangerous Attack on Left-Leaning Nonprofits, Trump Orders Government to Go After ‘Domestic Terrorism Networks’
Read more here.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Late-night comedy is definitely under threat of censorship. Comedians are always a line of attack for authoritarians. But so are other reporters & truth-tellers. Read my latest on the Mario Guevara case & the broader (daily) attacks on free speech by our admin: pressingissues.org/trumps-attac...
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Trump’s Attacks on Free Speech Are Way Bigger Than Just Late-Night Comedy
This administration tries to muzzle dissent and the truth every day.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 19/09/2025
BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation
Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A reminder that THIS is what a man who died telling the truth looks like. Be in peace Anas Al Sharif. سلام عليك يا أنس الشريف
Anas Al Sharif
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
You can be unapologetically antifascist and simultaneously not revel in moments of political violence like this. Two children are now without a father, a wife is without their partner. We need to humanize each other, even those we vehemently oppose. الله يرحَمُه
Charlie Kirk with family.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 21/08/2025
Our latest: LA anti-ICE protests spurred US military to identify "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment," as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA
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LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’
Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Yes to border cops, no to public media? Got it. Congress approved $170 billion for immigration enforcement, incl. $75 billion in extra funding for ICE. But the Senate may approve a budget CUT package to claw back $1.1 billion from public broadcasters PBS & NPR. The Senate has until July 18 to vote.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 16/06/2025
Our director @rshapiro.bsky.social discussing our latest: US Army and state intelligence centers are targeting civilian-made online ICE raid maps as security threats, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained & shared w/ @dell.bsky.social @dmehro.bsky.social @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/no-kin...
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The reckoning for freedom is here & we’ve got to fight for a collective freedom if we have any hope of upending Trump’s retaliation campaign. Read @brianstelter.bsky.social @cnn.com piece outlining what’s at stake: www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/m...
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Anti-Trump protests cap a week of free speech stress tests across America | CNN Business
Virtually every flashpoint in American politics right now involves the First Amendment right to free speech and free expression.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 14/06/2025
Scoop: US Army and state intelligence centers are targeting civilian-made online ICE raid maps as security threats, as revealed in new intel docs we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/no-kin...
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'No Kings’ Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 03/06/2025
BIG STORY: FBI's WMD Office colluding with Big Ag lobby group to target animal rights activists as "bioterrorists" for conducting undercover investigations on factory farms, as revealed in intel documents we obtained & shared w/ @dell.bsky.social @wired.com. #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wm...
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists
For years, a powerful ‘Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a “bioterrorism” threat.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This Thursday we're hosting a virtual conversation on free speech in the age of retaliation. @attorneynora.bsky.social will moderate this discussion with experts from @lawyerscomm.bsky.social and @ccrjustice.org. RSVP here! bit.ly/fpaorsoc
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MS NOW @ms.now · 10/05/2025
NEW: See the dramatic moment when Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a gubernatorial candidate in New Jersey, was arrested Friday at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on trespassing charges.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
And now the administration has ended public support for PBS and NPR. A blow for press freedom, independent media, and the Fourth Estate. A further blow to democracy any time government seeks to weaken independent news. Reminds me of Hungary and Russia.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW: Federal judge appointed by Trump rules that Trump's AEA proclamation is "unlawful." The final judgment blocks Trump's March 14 Alien Enemies Act proclamation from being used to deport anyone from southern Texas.
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Federal judge appointed by Trump rules that Trump's AEA proclamation is "unlawful"
The final judgment blocks Trump's March 14 Alien Enemies Act proclamation from being used to deport anyone from southern Texas.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
1 Waltz = 4 Flynns + 9 Scaramuccis www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
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Trump Is Ousting Michael Waltz, His National Security Adviser (Gift Article)
President Trump initially defended Mr. Waltz for mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat about military strikes.
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
📣 100 Days of the Broligarchy - on ZOOM In this emergency session of the Big Tech Oversight Board, we look at Trump’s first 100 days through the lens of Big Tech - the good, the bad and the Broligarchy. Wed 30th April, 9AM PST / 12pm EST / 5PM BST citizensreunited.substack.com/p/live-emerg...
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Live Emergency Session: 100 Days of the Broligarchy - April 30th
100 days into Trump 2.0 and Tech Bro takeover of the US government, where are we?
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Property of the People @propertyofthepeople.org · 25/04/2025
BIG: We obtained the AG's memo serving as the blueprint for law enforcement nationwide to roundup immigrants as suspected Tren de Aragua members explicitly outside due process. We shared with Nick Penzenstadler / @willcarless.bsky.social / @usatoday.com. #FOIA www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan
Trump administration officials directed police to circumvent courts and pursue gang members into their homes without a warrant, a new document shows.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
DEVELOPING: There is chatter coming out of the White House that as early as next week Donald Trump may issue as many as 5 Executive Orders targeting US-based nonprofits and civil society organizations.
Trump signing executive order
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Secretary of State holding a public conversation with Mike Benz — legitimizing a former white power YouTuber as an expert in our government — is Loomer-level insanity. Reality is dead and there is no floor. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona
Frame Game, the pseudonym of an alt-right internet personality, hid his face while pushing racist conspiracy theories. Inadvertent slips revealed details about his identity.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Elon Musk is a monster of a human being and an abomination of a father. I hope Ashley Sinclair and all the mothers impacted by Musk sue him for every penny he has. www.wsj.com/politics/elo...
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The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers
The world’s richest man juggles more than a dozen children and ‘harem drama’ along with running his companies and advising Trump. He recently took a paternity test in a battle with one woman over mone...
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Jesus’ procession should be seen as a parody of imperial power: a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom not built on violence but on justice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...
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Opinion | Palm Sunday Was a Protest, Not a Procession (Gift Article)
Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom not built on violence but on justice.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The same ghouls who are actively gutting aid, social services, veterans benefits, and now possibly social security, are always hyping "private investments." "Get a 401k" they say... Welp, today they just flushed $2Trillion from your 401k in ~20minutes. "Get a 401k" they say...
4 charts showing the Dow Jones, Nasdaq, S&P 500, and Small Cap 2000 indices on 4/2/2025 after US Markets took a $2trillion tumble following Trump's "liberation day" tariff announcements.
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The Sparrow Project @thesparrowproject.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I noticed Fox News Pentagon Correspondent Jennifer Griffin is in Mike Waltz phone as "JG" Could an errant click on the wrong JG accidentally have added Jeffrey Goldberg? Speaks more to human error than conspiracy but why are they adding a Fox News reporter to a sensitive chat?
I noticed Fox News Pentagon Correspondent Jennifer Griffin is in Mike Waltz phone as "JG"Fox News Pentagon Correspondent Jennifer Griffin
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