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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Quick note. As far as I understand this regards criminal punishment. It does not address inadmissibility and deportability.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Georgia’s Republican-controlled election board invited the Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday to declare the state’s voting system unlawful before the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pairs well with Marcy explaining how the egregious cases against Broadview 6 likely began because of MAGA's chief racist X troll.

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DOJ is invoking Trump v. US in an attempt to dodge accountability for the Broadview 6 case

YouTube video by emptywheel

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Senator Whitehouse on the Senate floor right now talking about Epstein and Trump ties to Russia. www.youtube.com/live/zML49aB...

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US Congress LIVE: “There Is a Cover-Up Afoot” | Sen. Whitehouse Exposes Trump, Epstein, Russia Ties

YouTube video by The Financial Express

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026

Like this gives the Saudis a content veto power over EA, Bioware, Paramount, CBS, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and BET, and if the newest merger gets approved they’ll also have content veto power over HBO, CNN, the whole WB universe, Discovery, TBS, TNT, plus the PGA and ATP. It’s pretty stunning.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes, what his happening in Gaza is "An Israeli Genocide." But it is more accurately described as "An American-Sponsored Genocide." As with all things, follow the money.

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore." 25 years ago today, Barbara Lee delivered this prescient warning — and cast the sole "No" vote — against the post-9/11 forever war.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.

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Critical Threats Project @criticalthreats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW | The Houthi offensive to capture territory near the Bab al Mandeb advances Iranian objectives under the current regional campaign that Iran is waging against the United States and its allies.

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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At more than $216 per barrel, US diesel futures are now at their highest level in history. We just busted through the prior record set at the height of the 2022 crisis.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/09/2026

Global grain prices are rising steeply as Ukraine and Russia intensify attacks upon one another’s main export infrastructure on the Black and Azov seas — leaving both countries struggling to find alternative outlets with the harvest in full swing.

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Global grain prices rise as Russia-Ukraine war escalates in Black Sea

Global grain prices are rising steeply as Ukraine and Russia intensify attacks upon one another's main export infrastructure on the Black and Azov seas — leaving both countries struggling to find alte...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This video, which should have been part of @thefarce.org and my Ball of Threads series, was also meant to be a one-off but probably will be another series. youtu.be/kTodyXxlPys

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Corruption is a Process

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

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Richard Blumenthal @blumenthal.senate.gov · 01/09/2026

This brave whistleblower has disclosed dramatic details about USPS’ seemingly illegal plot to undermine November’s midterms. The system is purposefully designed to fail—& risk voting rights for millions of Americans who cast ballots by mail.

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USPS whistleblower says rushed new mail ballot systems could disenfranchise voters

The new systems were developed quickly and haven’t been tested enough, complaint alleges

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Data centers are an emerging political crisis for Team Trump, per @TheRickWilson A small city in North Dakota shows why Here ======>

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/09/2026

⚡️Update: Germany closes Russian consulate, targets Russian House after Leipzig airport plot. Berlin will also push for tougher sanctions on Russia, stricter entry controls for Russian citizens, and increased pressure on Russia's so-called shadow fleet.

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Breaking: Germany officially blames Russia for drone attack attempt at Leipzig airport

"We have clear indications from our intelligence services and partner agencies, as well as from investigations in Germany and in our European partner countries, of Russian involvement," German Interio...

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Thos. Chevalier @thos-chevalier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A constitutional crisis in the making

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Naveed Hasan @naveed-hasan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is an excellent piece and William Dalrymple is one of the best living historians of South Asia. I have studied the East India Company and its corporate colonialism and centuries of unchecked power allowed them to break… 1/3 @willdalrymple.bsky.social @nytimes.com nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)

A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Can a Democratic Presidential candidate who takes money from the broligarchy, specifically AI, Crypto, and AIPAC, change a corrupt system and bring necessary reforms in 2028? @gilduran.com, author of The Nerd Reich, answers.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 26/08/2026

Dmytro Kruk grew up under Russian occupation in Donetsk Oblast and escaped twice. In this interview, he describes forced Russian mobilization, passportization, propaganda, and the FSB filtration he endured while leaving the occupied territories.

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How a Ukrainian escaped Russian occupation – twice

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

According to ERA5 global sea surface temperatures have set a new all time record. This is likely the warmest sea surface temperatures have been in at least the last 125,000 years. What’s more concerning is this will likely rise further in the coming months.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22/08/2026

⚡️France to speed up missile deliveries to Ukraine amid critical air defense shortage. French President Macron also agreed to help Kyiv in communications with international partners who have supplies of Patriot air defense systems, critical for protecting civilians from Russian ballistic missiles.

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France to speed up missile deliveries to Ukraine amid critical air defense shortage

French President Emmanuel Macron also agreed to help Kyiv in its communications with international partners that with supplies of Patriot air defense systems, which Zelensky has repeatedly said are cr...

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’m outside the D.C. federal courthouse, where Judge Edmund Sullivan just tore into the Justice Department over its handling of the Epstein files. DOJ attorneys were pressed why material required under the Epstein Files Transparency Act was not properly redacted and they were unprepared to answer.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Notice corporate media will try to pit Democrats against each other all day but won't have discussions about Democratic championed policies like Medicare for all, big $ out of politics, raising tax on wealthy etc. The corporate media executives don't want people to hear more on those issues.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I mean, some of us did a video about the Bunker Ballroom as the metonym for Trump's corruption. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMn...

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Let them eat ballroom

YouTube video by emptywheel

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gomimig.bsky.social @gomimig.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This reporting reflects the failures of DOI and the ongoing internal degradation of its agency the National Park Service. Always bear in mind that DOI is not the passion or work force of NPS. This is a dedicated collective of people on the ground working daily to uphold a mission ignored by DOI.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Even the BBC are catching up. Quoting Alon Arad:"This is exactly how the mechanism works. You use archaeology, you use it in order to do excavations and...to rewrite history, but you also use it in order to allocate lands or reallocate lands from Palestinian to Israeli" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites

Israel is planning large-scale land expropriations in historic, Palestinian areas of the West Bank.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s mind boggling how little European states are talking about the possible deployment of a powerful offensive and ballistic missile capable North Korean force to attack Ukraine. Europe is failing if this is shrugged off. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Ukraine's Zelenskiy says up to 50,000 North Korean troops to be deployed in Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said up to 50,000 North Korean soldiers will be deployed in Russia to fight for Pyongyang's ally, while calling on South Korea to provide support for its a...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Good news! The Senate adjourned this morning without taking steps toward passing the voting restrictions bill.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory boreholes, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/08/2026

“The bank executives knew Epstein was dirty, and they basically looked the other way.” @wyden.senate.gov tells @crampell.bsky.social his investigation found Epstein’s sex trafficking operation could not have continued for so long without top banking officials ignoring the law.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

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Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/08/2026

We can’t end gerrymandering until we expand the Supreme Court.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.

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A Johns Hopkins University public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained this week by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement efforts at airports.
In an email Thursday night, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security confirmed that agents with its
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested Fatima Ameaka on July 28 at Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

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