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Tompaul Wheeler

@tompaulwheeler.bsky.social
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Writer. Photographer. Filmmaker.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3h
The administration that continues to cover up for pedophiles simply cannot be trusted with the care of hundreds of unaccompanied children with no oversight and no transparency
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h
“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today
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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him
The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h
A televised execution and a president making an investment in a contractor immediately before announcing a policy relevant to its business are two very different stories both deserving of attention, but the first is so viscerally horrifying the second seems mundane by comparison.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Springfield, Ohio—do you know that story? It’s a very sad story,” Trump said. Springfield, he insisted, had been a “beautiful” and “idyllic” little town—“that’s a word they use in high scripture: ‘idyllic’”—until those Haitians showed up.

“It was an idyllic place. Was, is the better word. Not anymore, but it soon will be. They’re all being brought back to their country.”

This, too, was spiritual leadership—though of a very different sort than I’d seen at St. John. Trump spoke with the leering confidence of a decade of MAGA-rally experience—secure in the knowledge that a crowd never loves him more than when he gives them permission to indulge in a little communal vice. And he was right. Whatever scruples, whatever discomfort they might have had going in, the crowd abandoned them now. They grinned, laughed, and struck up a chant: “Deport! Deport! Deport!”

Trump says they’re all going back. For Pierre Damas Bel’s friends and family, the future is murky; whether they can stay, and for how long, still remains to be seen. But they won’t all be going back. They buried Pierre Damas Bel on Saturday. He’s here to stay.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dems’ 2028 platform should include stuff like letting soldiers have beards, letting TSA agents sit down, letting generals get their promotions, etc. The deep state isn’t real but civil and uniformed services are. We need them to know which side respects their human dignity before MAGA’s next coup.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Withdraw from Iraq yesterday, send 10,000 troops and another carrier to fight Iran today. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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U.S. Sending Third Aircraft Carrier, Up to 10,000 More Troops, to Middle East
The deployments come as President Trump weighs resuming bombing Iran after the midterms.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/4yWadkR
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
Trump's third-country removal scheme may be suspended, but the cruelty of ICE flights continues. This is yesterday, Monday, Sept. 21. --72+ flights, nearly every adult onboard shackled --12 removal flights --A removal flight headed to Myanmar
An ADSBx map of the lower continental US plus Mexico and Central America down to Nicaragua. There are dozens of flight lines across the map, mostly converging on Alexandria, Louisiana.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1. Biden Dems & reality give huge incentive to EVs 2. Detroit adopts two-pronged strategy: milk gas guzzlers, sink money into great EVs (& lobby to give gas guzzlers a few extra years) 3. Trump goes 100% gas guzzling, Detroit writes off $$$$$ 4. Detroit asks for protection against Chinese cars. :(
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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HigherEd Alicia @higheredalicia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE murders
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is my Narnia rock opera.
The cover of the classic Second Chapter of Acts album “The Roar of Love.” The image shows Lucy and Susan riding the back of an Aslan who appears about the size of a school bus.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Will true Narnia fans boycott the audiobooks read by women—or at least mute all of Aslan’s dialogue?
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Magician’s Nephew is my fave Narnia book, so let’s be real: It’s got likely the darkest scene in kids’ literature. In a flashback, the kids learn the world of Charn is dead because Queen Jadis committed ecocide rather than lose a civil war to her sister. TMN also has perhaps the brightest scene—
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love the aesthetic, but this makes him look way too cool. The whole point is his self-centered quest for mystery and power has made him pathetic.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
25 yrs ago today, I walked out of a sermon. Title: “God’s 911 Call to the World.” It featured an old Chinese story about someone who lit a fire to get people’s attention. I found it utterly tone deaf. I look for God’s hand in world events. Something’s wrong, though, if we lose sight of His heart.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So a big part of Iran Contra and one of the (many) reasons it was illegal was that third party fund weren’t deposited into the U.S. Treasury
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This description sounds way too familiar in 2026.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The U.S. economy is eight times larger now than fifty years ago. The difference is that the gains have been overwhelmingly claimed by the wealthy.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Republicans have long accused Democrats of “buying votes” when they promise policies that benefit people.
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Marco Rubio was confirmed as Secretary of State on a 99-0 vote.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
chess dot com probably doesn’t have much money but they clearly have enough to own the world’s richest man
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Horrifying footage out of Danbury, CT shows ICE agents violently piling on, punching, and pepper-spraying a man on the pavement while bystanders scream for them to stop. Human rights abuses happening in broad daylight cannot be normalized. We MUST demand accountability and justice now! 🎥 ICEOut.org
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Pop-up Leftist Cwab Depot @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Say what you want about Elon Musk and DOGE, they’re much more efficient at starving people and having them die of treatable diseases than communism ever was.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The road to hell is paved with moral cowardice.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It is really time to sue on the ankle monitor policy: it was issued as interim guidance rather than a notice and comment rulemaking. It also likely violates the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stock buybacks were illegal until Reagan has the law changed in 1982, as they were considered market manipulation.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People who receive hospice care typically live longer than those who don’t. That is generally considered a positive outcome.
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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Congress enacted laws on deportations. It also enacted laws that allow some without status (or have status ripped away) to gain status through family-based petitions, relief in immigration court, etc. The agencies' role is as much to enforce and facilitate *those* laws as the ones on deportations.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Don’t worry. Republicans will care again as soon as a Democrat’s back in the White House. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/u...
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In Trump’s Washington, Ballooning National Debt Stirs Little Action
The relative indifference to the news that the U.S. government now owes $40 trillion demonstrates how drastically the politics of deficit spending has changed.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Can’t remember the names of all five Great Lakes? Just remember this handy acronym! Superior Huron America Michigan Erie
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
HAMES? Naah.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remarkable how liars don’t even own up to their lies. Because they know they’re lying, and they’re lying about the lies the knew they told.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 26/08/2026
Trump runs a $1.8 billion cash-for-criminals program while families struggle to pay rent. He turned the White House into an all-you-can-eat corruption buffet for himself, his family,& his cronies. Meanwhile Americans lose jobs & can’t afford groceries. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS
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Tompaul Wheeler @tompaulwheeler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Talking with our 11yo the other week, we mentioned that not long ago, Dolly Parton was basically thought of as a joke. 11yo: What?! Why? She sends kids books! Us: Well, people called her a dumb blond because she was pretty, and made jokes about her body, and just generally made fun of her . . .
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Mistrrx @mistrrx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I.C.E. is a terrorist anti-human organization that is the enemy of the American ideal, an enemy of the American dream, an enemy of the American people. I.C.E. must be defunded, disbanded, and all its members and “leadership” investigated and tried for their crimes.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i'm pretty familiar with doug wilson's whole deal but nothing could have prepared me for how he answers hasan's charge that he discriminates against women at 0:33.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The bigger story here is that Trump's collapse is the direct result of the three pillars of right wing populist nationalism all failing disastrously. Mass deportations, America First foreign policy, and now tariffs/trade wars are all getting badly discredited. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2146...
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