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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
#ICE Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump immigrant purge could cut social security for Americans by $2,000 a year
New report on economic cost of anti-immigration campaign projects 8.6% reduction in retirement payments by 2034
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Washington Sun reported last week that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to hold off on attacking abortion until after the midterms. After that, they’ve promised anti-abortion leaders, “the gloves will be off.” They are just getting started. But here’s the thing: so are we.
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The White House’s Promise to Attack Abortion After the Midterms
The White House has “instructed the Justice Department to move slowly on any abortion-related actions ahead of the midterm elections,” The Washington Sun reports.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remember the names of the men who raped #GiselePelicot www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Who are the men convicted over rape and assault of Gisèle Pelicot?
Dominique Pelicot has been jailed for 20 years for drugging his then wife and inviting men to rape her – and 50 men were found guilty alongside him
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Woooow, who could have predicted that a) #Venezuela would not recover under trump and b) that he would take their oil for his own financial gain? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US officials defend Venezuela oil deal amid questions over rebuilding plan
Government talks up pact but Venezuelan opposition alarmed that democracy yet to return after Maduro exit
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Black boys deserve to grow old" on #EmmettTill www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-is-t...
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Today Is the Anniversary of Emmett Till’s Murder—We Were Just There
71 years later, his accuser died free. The warrant for her arrest was never executed. This is not ancient history.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great #history #podcast episode on Agrippa: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Marcus Agrippa: Power behind the throne
Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · August 20 · 54m
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#cops #acab How Law Enforcement Gets Away With Sexually Abusing Children genderedpoliceabuse.substack.com/p/how-law-en...
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How Law Enforcement Gets Away With Sexually Abusing Children
My Full Breakdown on Police Child Sexual Abuse
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NPR @npr.org · 09/08/2026
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Ahead of midterms, Republicans run ads after cutting healthcare funds
Blanketing the airwaves with ads about healthcare, Republican candidates who voted to cut federal funding in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are positioning themselves as advocates for lower costs.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Gaza #Palenstine Noah Berlatsky brings moral clarity to the table: "To recognize and condemn a genocide is to demand action to stop it. If genocides are distant and unusual, they have little relevance for our own politics" www.everythingishorrible.net/p/genocides-...
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Genocides Are Not Uncommon
It is politically convenient to treat them as rare.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
First, they were ONLY going to target school #libraries, “to protect the children.” Then they went for public libraries. Now they’re even including #book sellers in their bans bookriot.com/arkansas-act...
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Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#Literacy Among other issues, kids have lost the desire to read long passages and #books. They read more than most generations before them, but they read short posts on social media, in simple English: www.wired.com/story/missis...
wired.com
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I highly recommend this list of great #film #documentaries: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-d...
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The 25 Best Documentaries of All Time, Ranked
From 'Grey Gardens' to 'The Gleaners and I,' 'Gimme Shelter' to 'Grizzly Man' and beyond, THR critics pick their favorite non-fiction films of all time.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Republican Sen. #berniemoreno refuses to oppose the congressional campaign of #MaxMiller, the man accused of scalding his daughter with boiling water and fracturing his granddaughter's collarbone. www.throughline.news/p/why-dont-c...
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Why Don't Conservative Men Protect Their Own Daughters?
Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno refuses to oppose the congressional campaign of the man accused of scalding his daughter with boiling water and fracturing his granddaughter's collarbone.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Watch this @allinwithchris.bsky.social segment.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It would be lovely if #DOGE people couldn't find jobs anywhere for the rest of their fucking lives www.wired.com/story/doge-v...
wired.com
DOGE Veterans Are Landing Big Jobs at Prediction Markets
Polymarket and Novig have both recently brought ex-DOGE affiliates onboard as scrutiny of the industry intensifies.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
#ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’ www.wired.com/story/ices-n...
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ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sometimes, regressive politics use progressive tropes to gain followers / influence. In this case, a woman claiming to care for the #environment is doing just the opposite: heated.world/p/the-influe...
heated.world
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#Film Can We Finally Admit Christopher #Nolan Leans Right (and Still Makes Good Movies)? www.truthdig.com/articles/can...
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After "The Odyssey," Admit It. Christopher Nolan Leans Right
Just as the acclaimed director projects modern morality onto the pagan Odysseus, his fans project progressive politics onto his conservative films.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Cannot (again) recommend this movie strongly enough. One of the finest representations of the banality of evil.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Guatemalan couple was seeking asylum in the US. #ICE reported them, and they were murdered www.arianajasmine.com/p/after-trum...
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After Trump’s Deportation, Guatemalan Couple Found Bound and Shot Dead
A Guatemalan couple who had recently reunited after one of them was deported from the United States has been found bound, gagged, and fatally shot in a sugar cane field, leaving behind three young dau...
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The noise from #AI #datacenters affects humans as well as wildlife nearby futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors' Homes
New audio of an infamously loud data center in Dowagiac, Michigan captures the full scope of the deafening noise plaguing residents.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
More information about #ICE agent David #Brouillette, who shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/16/i...
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/07/2026
JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.
The first page of a formal, typed legal letter dated 14 July 2026. It is addressed to the leadership of Amnesty International UK: Helen Horton (Chair, Amnesty International UK Section), Sandy Ruthven (Chair, Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust), and Kerry Moscogiuri (Chief Executive). The contact information and phone numbers in the top-right corner are redacted with a large black block, and a footer at the bottom is also blacked out.
​The subject line reads: "BEIRA’S PLACE | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK PUBLICATION DATED 8 JULY 2026".
​The body text states that the sender acts on behalf of Beira’s Place, a sexual violence support service for women in Edinburgh and the Lothians. It asserts the legal right under the Equality Act 2010 to provide single-sex services and references the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers to define "woman" by biological sex. The letter strongly objects to page 20 of a newly published Amnesty report titled "A growing threat; the anti-rights movement in the UK", which allegedly categorizes Beira's Place as an "anti-rights organization." The letter calls this categorization "grossly offensive and entirely without foundation."The second page of the formal legal letter, maintaining the same clean, typed layout with a heavy black redaction block covering the footer at the bottom.
​Under the heading "Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Act 2021", the text argues that labeling Beira's Place as "anti-rights" is defamatory and legally actionable. It claims the report has caused severe damage, including threatening correspondence and a 600% spike in hostile website traffic. The text notes that Beira's Place, with the support of its founder J.K. Rowling, will not allow its reputation to be tarnished.
​Under the heading "Remedies", the letter lists legal demands to avoid litigation, including:
​A permanent withdrawal of the Amnesty report and its methodology.
​A public letter of apology on the homepage of Amnesty’s website, apologizing to Beira's Place, its staff, and service users, as well as acknowledging the protected belief that sex is real and immutable.The final page of the typed legal letter, featuring a large black redaction box covering the signature block in the middle and another covering the footer at the bottom.
​The page contains the conclusion of the legal demands, including a third remedy requiring Amnesty to commission an external investigation into how the report was published.
​The letter warns that if Amnesty does not agree to these terms, counsel will be instructed to prepare for court action. It concludes with a note that J.K. Rowling, as founder of Beira's Place, will make a formal complaint to the Charity Commission or other appropriate regulator and supports other listed gender-critical organizations taking their own legal actions. It signs off with "Yours faithfully" before the blacked-out signature block.
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/07/2026
The Bureau of Land Management is rewriting rules for ranching on public lands to allow more livestock grazing in the West. Overgrazing has degraded public lands, and the overhaul would expand the practice, rangeland experts say. w/ @highcountrynews.org
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The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heav...
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported by #ICE from the US hours before the #Venezuela earthquakes are missing apnews.com/article/eart...
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the ...
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How the Trump administration targets #non-profits: www.importantcontext.news/p/maga-attac...
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MAGA Attacks Nonprofits. It Took Lessons From Authoritarians.
“The Trump administration is really the first to all-out attack nonprofits.”
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
#TheOdyssey The people who trash Emily Wilson are full of shit. They will never know as much about the Classics as she does. www.wired.com/story/the-ne...
wired.com
The New ‘Odyssey’ Movie Is Sparking a Right-Wing Backlash. This Female Scholar Knows It Well
Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s epic—the first by a woman—was called a woke “abomination” by online reactionaries. Christopher Nolan’s film is facing similar critiques.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
That’ll teach those kids to be born to a poor mom
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/06/2026
Inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence victim began collecting others’ stories of abuse. 156 women answered her call. Together, they became “survivor sisters” — and helped shape a new law offering them a path toward freedom. But would it work? Listen to the full episode:
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Convicted of Killing Their Abusers, These Women Got Another Chance at Freedom
A new law gave people sentenced for the murders of their abusive partners a rare pathway to freedom. That wasn’t the end of the story.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Congressional funding package for the nation’s roads, bridges, and public infrastructure includes an industry-friendly carveout that would give ride-hailing apps like #Uber and #Lyft legal immunity from car crashes and injuries. www.levernews.com/congress-jus...
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Congress Just Snuck In Uber Immunity
A provision tucked into a must-pass transportation bill could shield Uber and Lyft from lawsuits — as the companies battle thousands of injury and sexual assault claims.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Important to stress that: a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist; b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari
That’s February, and my team and I are doing a story about the protests in Minneapolis against the ICE crackdown there. We’ve interviewed Senator Rand Paul, Republican, because he’s going to hold hearings into this, and the fact that a Republican was going to do that was quite newsworthy. So, we interviewed Senator Paul and then built out a story about what had happened — the killing of Renee Good, the killing of Alex Pretti, the protests. I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively. We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer. We found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball. We culled together a lot of video of protesters screaming in the faces of officers because we were going to talk about the killing of Pretti and the killing of Good, and it seemed to me important to tell the audience about the entire context. I thought we’d done a really good job with this. We also included a picture of Alex Pretti before he was killed kicking out a taillight on a police car and made a point of saying, this is Alex Pretti and this is what he did.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Not only is Bari Weiss blindly certain that she is correct in the face of evidence showing she’s wrong — a fundamentally disqualifying trait for news reporting — she seems to truly believe the *most convincing* evidence that something is true is if it’s the opposite of the normie consensus
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/06/2026
the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I used to believe that #books made people better. Then I worked in an office with a woman who read about 1 book per week. She was a MAGA and cared about no one but herself and her family. Reading does NOT improve people's character, sadly. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/human-by-t...
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Human By the Book
On the Dangers of Making Reading Spiritual
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 26/05/2026
Trump administration’s proposal that millions of federal employees sign a blanket NDA is not just absurd, it’s unnecessary and dangerously secretive. This policy would kneecap whistleblower protections, undermine the First Amendment, and wrongly inhibit the public’s right to know.
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Trump’s government-wide NDA seeks to silence whistleblowers
Administration’s history of crackdowns on embarrassing stories lays bare its motives
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...
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DHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detention
The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...
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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I just bought Killer Althusser after reading this post by @nberlat.bsky.social . He recommends the best #books open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...
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Femicide Is A Political Act of Terror
Men enforce patriarchy through violence.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There are a couple of ways one can react to the #Pulitzer winners: 1) Indifference 2) whining that no one you know on TT ever read one of these books 3) curiosity about the ones you haven’t read yet I choose 3, and I’m thankful to be introduced to new #books www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
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2026 Prize Winners and Finalists | The Pulitzer Prizes
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"when men murder intimate partners, they are committing a political act… Femicide, in this framework, is an act of terrorism" www.everythingishorrible.net/p/femicide-i...
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Femicide Is A Political Act of Terror
Men enforce patriarchy through violence.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
#ICE Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown www.wired.com/story/border...
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Unmasking the Paramilitary Agents Behind Trump’s Violent Immigration Crackdown
A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#Environment The water usage by data centers is one of the most critical problems facing the world, and almost no one is talking about it. www.wired.com/story/senato...
wired.com
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use
In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This week, @maddow.bsky.social highlighted how Delta Airlines is aiding #ICE in kidnapping children and families: youtu.be/36uvETie3zQ?...
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The Rachel Maddow Show - March 23 | Audio Only
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Can we stop pretending that conservatives care about waste? They keep talking about immigrants taking up resources and then support this. The below doesn’t even include the costs of deporetiom flights. We’ve always known it was about racism. #ICE www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...
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ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds
Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Which #ICE concentration camps are in your area? Which companies are they contracting with? All this info plus more now available on austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...
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The Best Source of ICE Detention Data Just Got Better: "Detention Reports" Now Includes Map, New Graph, & Facility Contracts
DetentionReports.com now features an interactive national map of all 237 ICE detention facilities, comparative scatter plots showing facility populations and length of stay, and a contracts archive.
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Article about the Cassandras, the people (mostly women) who predicted how destructive Trump would be, but were dismissed by centrist / liberal pundits as "hysterical." newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous.
Interest in eugenics and transhumanism
Beginning in the early-2000s Epstein developed an interest in "improving" the human race through genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, including using his own sperm. He addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with eugenics.[395] It was reported in 2019 that Epstein had planned to "seed the human race with his DNA" by impregnating up to 20 women using his New Mexico compound as a "baby ranch", where mothers would give birth to his offspring. He was an advocate of cryonics and his idiosyncratic version of transhumanism, and said he intended to have his penis and head frozen.[396][397]
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Tischgirl @tischgirl.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
#Education: Reporters like this idiot at Politico are always SHOCKED when self-described "anti-woke free speech" proponents harbor right-wing views and seek to stifle left-leaning speech. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
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