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American living in Switzerland with my husband, dog and 2 cats. A little concerned that my goal in life is to spend as little time as possible dealing with humans.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21h
On the other side, the coin has a small emblem with a horse’s head emblazoned over crossed swords and the phrase “NE QUIS EFFUGIAT,” which is Latin for “So that no one will escape.”
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Eddie Mars Attacks! @eddiemarsattacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My clients were deported on Saturday night. I could not stop it from happening.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's milk time for Moshi! Every orphan in our care receives a unique milk formula tailored to their species, age and nutritional needs. Keeper Peter has every bottle feed perfectly orchestrated, under the watchful supervision of his adoring zebra shadows, Bombi & Brutus!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Jessica Huseman @jessicahuseman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weekend scoop from me for @votebeat.org: Two GOP members of Georgia’s State Election Board say Executive Director James Mills sent letters to DOJ and DHS without telling the board or getting approval — and that the letters went beyond what the board voted to request. www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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Georgia election board director allegedly goes rogue, asks feds to crack down on state voting equipment
Two members of the Georgia State Election Board say their executive director sent unauthorized letters to the Trump administration.
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Muttville Senior Dog Rescue @muttvilledogrescue.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is the only time you want Macarena stuck in your head on repeat Macarena | Female | 12 years old | 8 lbs
Small tan Chihuahua with large ears wearing a colorful harness, lying on a red-and-black plaid blanket, looking at the camera.
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 04/10/2026
Medical experts bypass a stalled CDC to issue independent fall vaccination guidelines, prioritizing flu shots for everyone over six months. This decentralized approach prevents an information vacuum ahead of respiratory season while working to mitigate severe hospitalizations.
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Here’s why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu
Vaccination isn’t “a guarantee that we’re going to prevent illness. But just like the seat belt in your car, it decreases risk” of the worst outcomes, said Dr. Ryan Stanton of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 04/10/2026
Check out where your support helped make a difference around the world this week🌏 For families impacted by disaster, a hot meal is more than food—it’s a lifeline. (1/2)
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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ICE is opening a concentration camp for children in Alexandria, Louisiana run by a private company with a horrendous human rights record. Because of significant opposition, the local government and ICE are doing everything they can to keep what's happening a secret www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our life experiences matter to how we think about the state, e.g. how we think about burdens in social programs. The fact that the US is an unequal society means that we mostly have wealthy people determining policy that affect working class people. bsky.app/profile/donm...
Few legislators are working class in US or elsewhere
Two scholars found that although about half of U.S. workers have working-class jobs, only 1.1% of U.S. legislators get elected soon after having that kind of occupation. They found similar patterns around the world when they studied data from 97 democracies. https://theconversation.com/why-working-class-people-account-for-around-1-of-lawmakers-in-the-us-and-only-2-in-the-average-democracy-around-the-world-288677
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Less than 1% of major party nominees for Congress are working class. It is one of the most fundamental ways that Congress is not representative. And their views, e.g. on unregulated gambling websites, are apt to be different. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Since this summer, ICE has been arresting asylum applicants at airports. Many came legally, then applied for asylum. They have been here for years just stuck in a massive line, working and paying taxes while they wait. No prior admin would have arrested them. Their “overstay” is due to DHS delay.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“What exactly is an Israeli military position doing inside Syria? Let me correct you: you’re not ‘defending’ a position in Syria—you’re occupying Syrian territory. You have no right to be there. Please leave Syrian land. Your presence and actions violate international law.”
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 9th Circuit has administratively stayed Judge Bastian's order, meaning Roger Rogoff is out (again) as US Atty of WD Wash. So as things stand, he is fired again.
The court has received the government's emergency motion for stay pending
appeal. Dkt. No. 9. The request for an administrative stay is GRANTED. The
court's administrative stay "is only intended to preserve the status quo until the
substantive motion for a stay pending appeal can be considered on the merits, and
does not constitute in any way a decision as to the merits" of the appeal. See Doe
#I v. Trump, 944 F.3d 1222, 1223 (9th Cir. 2019).
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paulahackett.bsky.social @paulahackett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
24 years old
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
10/4/26 Chicagoland ICE activity update: ICE reported active across Chicago's SW side and in Hammond, IN today. At least 3 abductions reported: 1 in Archer Heights; 1 near a Back of the Yards Home Depot the feds have targeted for months; 1 in Hammond outside what looks to be a Unilever warehouse.
A 10/4/2026 rapid responder alert warning of an ICE abduction on 48th and Western, near a Home Depot the feds have targeted since last year.A 10/4/2026 rapid responder alert warning of an ICE abduction on 44th and St. Louis in Chicago's Archer Heights neighborhood.Image text:

🚨 ALERTA COMUNITARIA – Hammond, IN 🚨
📅 Hoy - 10/04/2026
🕥 12:15 p.m.
📍 Calumet Ave y Indianapolis Blvd
🧊 CONFIRMADO : Presencia de ICE en el área. Una persona detenida.
🚗 Vehículos Observados: 
Chevy Tahoe Negra
Dodge Durango Blanco
SUV Negra
📣 SI VE ALGO DIGA ALGO DE INMEDIATO.
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Mikal Lewis @mikal-el.com · 05/10/2026
A life hack for those suffering from Human memory.
Accessibility settings page in Bluesky.
With the options to require alt text before posting set to on.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New: Weeks after McClatchy gutted local newsrooms across the country, staffers told Status leadership has gone silent about the future Meanwhile, days after the layoffs, the company touted new execs and hires for its controversial AI innovation lab www.status.news/p/mcclatchy-...
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McClatchy Goes Mute
Weeks after gutting local newsrooms, McClatchy leadership has offered staffers virtually no explanation of what comes next, Status has learned, as the company builds out its controversial A.I. operati...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seeing this while reading ‘end times fascism’ by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social has me reeeeeeling
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A loss in court for Washington’s law that tried to heighten oversight on sheriffs — Amy wrote about how a slice of that debate has made it into the ballot in a large county: boltsmag.org/pierce-count...
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Amy Sundberg @amysundberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Update: on Friday a judge threw out the parts of the WA state sheriff's standards law that required sheriffs to meet the same basic standards that police chiefs must meet and didn't allow them to continue to serve after being decertified for misconduct. WA State is likely to appeal.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🤔
The first recipient of the grant is Machine Gods, NPR’s new video podcast from former Hard Fork hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, which is receiving a $480,000 grant from the organization. Tarbell is also separately backing NPR’s “Power and Influence” desk, giving the public media outlet $250,000 to help expand its coverage of how AI intersects with politics, money, and power.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The Department of Homeland Security agreed to pay the donor’s firm $108 million for a Boeing 737 airliner that had been converted into a massive private jet, complete with a stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!
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DGiant @dgiant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This would be comical if it wasn’t so stupid & predictable. One of his “advisors” must have gotten him to do it. www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-e…
mediaite.com
Trump Encourages MAGA To Vote By Mail — After Months of Warning Against Mail-In Ballot Fraud
Donald Trump may be so desperate to make a red dent in the midterm elections that he's turning to an old nemesis to encourage Republicans to vote.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The latest from student journalists at the Cornell Sun: "According to an archived page of CUPD’s Daily Crime Log, CUPD found drugs at the Chi Phi house just hours before Jane Doe’s alleged drugging & sexual assault." www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
CUPD Made Drug Arrest at Chi Phi 22 Hours Before the Alleged Sexual Assault
Records show Cornell knew of drug activity at the Chi Phi house 22 hours before a former student alleges she was assaulted there.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I'm killing myself with aspirin megadoses and my idiot doctors keep begging me with tears in their eyes for me to stop killing myself with aspirin but I know everything about granite and marble and they don't know anything about granite and marble because they don't have the super intelligence"
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is everything that David and Larry Ellison now own
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.
hollywoodreporter.com
Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.
The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 03/10/2026
Attorney General Keith Ellison says that Google's agreement with Xcel Energy to power the huge, hyperscale data center in Pine Island could leave Xcel's other customers on the hook for millions and possibly more than a billion dollars in extra costs.
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Ellison: Google’s Pine Island data center could cost Minnesotans millions for electricity
Attorney General Keith Ellison says that Google's agreement with Xcel Energy to power a huge, hyperscale data center in Pine Island could leave Xcel's other customers on the hook for millions of dolla...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
As long as he’s aiming his invective at concepts associated with Black people he’s perfectly fine, once he strayed from anti-Black racism the mainstream press began to notice his bigotry.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
We started our very own private school with @arktimes.bsky.social. All it took was $45, a few clicks on a state website and an American flag.
propublica.org
Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even funnier when you think back to this:
December 3, 2020
COTTON, COLLEAGUES
INTRODUCE BILL TO STOP "DOXING" OF GOVERNMENT
WORKERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James
Arnold (202) 734-0430
December 3, 2020
Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Stop
"Doxing" of Government Workers
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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NYT reports that talks between the Trump administration and Russia to end the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit family business partners of the main US negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 03/10/2026
I am genuinely baffled by the people who try to negotiate with the lunch-money-stealing bully. He's just gonna come back for tomorrow's lunch money.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s why there’s so much innovation in their field—finding vulnerable minorities to blame for everyone’s problems so they can get people in office to cut taxes on rich people and subsidize their companies bsky.app/profile/jfal...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026
Fellow FTX executive Caroline Ellison is out of jail, and the Manifund effective altruist grantmaking organization has just let slip they hired her. She “brings specific, useful expertise around finance”, they say, which yeah — much in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.
Meanwhile, his fellow former FTX executive, Caroline Ellison, has been free from prison since January, and has now found gainful employment! She will be working for Manifund, an effective altruist grantmaking organization. In a blog post explaining why he hired her, CEO Austin Chen listed first among his bullet points “I specifically enjoyed Caroline’s Tumblr and other writings, which I found thoughtful and relatable.” (This is the blog where Ellison regularly blogged about “human biodiversity”, a euphemism for scientific racism, and wrote, “how do I signal my genuinely sweet and feminine nature on my dating profile? should it go before or after the section on wire fraud”). He also wrote that “Caroline brings specific, useful expertise around finance and systems management to Manifund.”16 Which, yeah, I guess I can't argue with that, in the same way that Bernie Madoff had very specific expertise.FTX essentially bankrolled Manifund and the associated Manifold Markets (think Polymarket but with fake money) through grants and investments. This may explain why Chen, citing a “keen debt” to FTX, decided to hire Ellison and pay her using funds derived from her fraud — money Manifund is currently fighting the FTX estate over rather than returning to creditors.17
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