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Lana

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Tea drinking, book loving, corgi obsessed American living in Portugal

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h
In any normal parliamentary democracy, the no confidence vote would be taking place tonight.
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🎃 Baby Saja Funko Pop 🎃 @babysajaboy.bsky.social · 8h
Ukraine keep going ur doing amazing sweetie
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23h
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But also she was trying to be a citizen, a voice, a participant in public life, a person with agency, and a man turned her into an unconscious object to be abused at will. He violently denied her rights, her voice, her humanity even as she was trying to be all those things.
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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is possibly the worst thing I have ever read. It should be the only headline on every news source. It won't be. If you've experienced sexual assault, maybe don't read the details.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He literally demolished the whole East Wing of the White House and no one came for him. He forged Electoral College votes in 2020 and set an insurrection in foot to sack the Capitol and even when someone DID come for him, they ended up dropping the case. We all see where he’s coming from.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At the leadership level anyway the two parties are "represents billionaires with openly racist beliefs" and "represents billionaires who have mostly submerged their racist and genocidal beliefs." Which is why you can't get any party leadership to sign up for transformative change the people want.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just to add a small point to discourse about rape and its effects on its victims. I don't think I recovered from mine--I mean, really recovered, fully and completely, so that weeks and months could go by without me thinking about--until I was about fifty, 35 years or so after it happened.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This, the continual "body cams were not on" , "ICE accounts differ with witnesses", all of this unlawful nonsense. EVERY Dem or politician who claims to care about the rights of individuals should be demanding another hearing, to stop funding of ICE & DOJ programs.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
Agree with this & I'd broaden it: as income inequality increases, the affluent class increasingly strains to free itself of public services. Those services suffer & the flywheel accelerates. Only way to stop is to say, for certain things, no: you have to use the same shit as us.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everyone involved in this, including the Palantir employees who built the software and the executives that sold it, need to be tried for warcrimes
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Rajan Narang @rdnarang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Disbarment and sanctions for everyone involved.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fun fact a falconer told me. A hawking glove's primary purpose is to stop the bird feeling the pulse in the hawker's wrist, otherwise it will tighten its grip with its talons until the pulse stops because that's how it kills prey. There's no way to override this instinct without hurting the bird.
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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.
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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why the internet was invented... #LifuX #Dogs #Dogsofbluesky
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If tearing it down is considered too wasteful, I would think a ballroom that vast could be fitted out to hold a LOT of offices for a newly formed Department of Truth and Reconciliation. Then tear it down when the job is finished.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.
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STEVE-il Dead Rise @snark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Every week the richest man in the world, who is both an unambiguous white supremacist and the largest Republican donor, posts heinous racist and antisemitic slop to the social media network he controls. Every week, reporters fail to treat this as a scandal worth their readers' time.
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Jenna @stay-a-spell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think it's worth noting that nothing is being done now. Johnson has kept congress home for most of the year over the Epstien files. The two year average is 284 stand alone bills passed. This congress has passed 38....they hold all 3 branches. These are not serious people.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump has been determined to disprove every argument that Electoral College proponents have made. No, it doesn’t compel candidates to pay attention to the interests of voters all over the country. It shields a tyrant from electoral blowback when he tells states that voted against him to drop dead
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They’re ending democracy via post office
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
sounds like affirmative action for MAGA basically
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The fact that Jeffries is meeting with Kushner to find “common ground” with this fascist administration while simultaneously publicly attacking the Democratic left shows clearly who he is and why he is backed by corporatist and pro-Israel donors. Jeffries is the definition of controlled opposition.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
‼️ Hakeem Jeffries met with Jared Kushner to discuss “how Democrats and the administration could work together.” Gift link:
nytimes.com
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him.
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
No amnesty. No mercy. No fucking plea deals. Nothing but relentless pursuit and vigorous prosecution for every last one of these fucking monsters
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"is it legal? no. should he stop? also no." -- every Supreme Court decision about Donald Trump
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.
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David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Oi! We saw you from across the bar and your vibe is TERRIBLE.
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