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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
💔 for Cape Verde 😢
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
LET’S GO CAPE VERDE!!!!!!!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Most Iranians have now been without access to the global internet for 1,000 hours. Including the January shutdown, that brings the total to roughly 1,400 hours in 2026 so far. That’s about 59% of the year so far.
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The BOP didnt implement the policy for how to handle and treat transgender inmates for more than ten years after ordered to do so. If I were a transgender inmate, I would sue for the years of treatment owed to me despite this new policy.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 12/02/2026
Are you an immigration attorney or know one? Please get in touch. Message me here or write to gaslit-nation@proton.me
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
She's 8 MONTHS PREGNANT & was kidnapped by ICE...or someone! When ANYONE can mask up, dress as ICE & rent a black SUV, what's to stop them from just kidnapping people? In California, we passed a law against masks & it's not being followed. Police aren't protecting us, no one is. #ICELawlessness
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 04/02/2026
Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yes, exactly. More examples from THEY KNEW:
I don't use apps, this is a laptop, and i'm not manually typing a page of text into a tiny box. This excerpt on the danger of paywalls is included at the bottom of this free article on the book THEY KNEW: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/its-safe-to-read-they-knew-now
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 29/01/2026
America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
-- Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Ex-NYPD deputy commish Kaz Daughtry is joining the Homeland Security Dept., @nytimes.com reports. Last year, @propublica.org investigated the secretive police unit he helped run and found it was so aggressive that it alarmed NYPD leaders: www.propublica.org/article/eric...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Even though there's currently single digit weather in parts of Texas, ICE refuses to turn on the heat in the Alvarado Texas facility. We've watched in years past when the lack of heat has killed residents of Texas who are without power, We have to demand that ICE turn on the heat in this facility!
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 25/01/2026
The Eldorado was an iconic trans club in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Marlene Dietrich performed; it inspired Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to Berlin which became Cabaret. Hitler comes to power: the Nazis turn it into an office for Stormtroopers perspectives.ushmm.org/item/photo-o...
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Photo of the Eldorado Club
A digital tool for studying the Holocaust through unique, original sources.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The first professional police force in the US began in 1838 in Boston. In 1854 only three cities had police forces: NYC, Philly, and Boston.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 25/01/2026
First things Hitler did in power: 1. Reichstag Fire: blamed it on communists to justify mass arrests 2. Shut down LGBTQ institutions: cultural and medical 3. Built first Nazi death camp: Dachau Go fast, break things. Overwhelm your opponent so they're too confused to understand what's going on
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
One of them made the most expensive order: a man paid €103,000 (9.2 million rubles) for four days with five women. Some prostitutes were offered a high position after the forum, while others were offered shopping trips to Paris, writes La Dépêche. 2/2
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The demand for prostitutes in Davos during the World Economic Forum soared by 4000%. Among the speakers there were Trump, Macron, Musk, as well as other well-known politicians and businessmen. 1/2
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 23/01/2026
NEW — West Garfield Park’s Legler Regional Library is providing meals to those in need through a Library-Based Food Access program. It is the first library food pantry for Illinois and Chicago, according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. thetriibe.com/2026/01/food...
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Legler Library will double as a food pantry in West Garfield Park • The TRiiBE
The library food pantry is the second in the country and the first in Illinois and Chicago.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"I don't believe in hope and I don't believe in hopelessness. Hope can be lethal when you're fighting an autocracy because hope is inextricable from time. An enduring strategy of autocrats is to simply run out the clock." --HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020) www.sarahkendziorbooks.com
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Nature @nature.com · 23/01/2026
Public health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have suspended a controversial US-funded hepatitis B vaccine study that has raised questions about who has authority over clinical research conducted in Africa go.nature.com/49DxkqN
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Guinea-Bissau suspends a US-funded vaccine trial as African scientists question its motives
Officials from the US Department of Health and Human Services, which funded the controversial study, say that it will proceed as planned.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This should be a story about further consolidation of media control. Mega republican donor oracle’s Larry Ellison now owns 15% & an Emirati investment firm another 15% of one of the most popular social media platforms in the U.S.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
1. State supreme courts are really important and it’s wild how overlooked they usually are 2. Sooooo many offices all over the country go uncontested, including in very winnable/swingy locations Here, in what sure looks like a blue wave year, two NV conservative justices go totally unchallenged:
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff. Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 18/01/2026
The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love.
This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns, and the fire consumes all.
You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water.
And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. 

Nikita Gill
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Mark Lutter’s Charter Cities Institute (CCI) has been eyeing Venezuela since 2019, has received $$$ from Emergent Ventures (backed by Thiel), & calls Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale a “supporter”. Lutter & I just had an interesting exchange. See posts 40-43…1/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/20074...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/01/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. Our #8 most-read story of 2025:
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/01/2026
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
For their anti-immigrant, white nationalist post about 100 million deportations, DHS stole the artwork of a non-white foreigner: Japanese illustrator Hiroshi Nagai. Apparently no white Americans were available to design an image. View Nagai's work here: hiroshinagai.com/contents.html
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The thread is lovely; the comments gold.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
In 2024, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said, “I’m friends w/ Leonard Leo. There’s about 5 major people…running pro-liberty empires…in the US… He’s the one who ran the Federalist Society. He’s put in a bunch of great judges. We have a case before [SCOTUS].” He mentions the Chevron doctrine... 1/
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Quick guide to interpreting US foreign policy propaganda: if the word “deal” was used, some American made some money, and the war is still going on.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12/12/2025
Keep up with the different surveillance technologies police are using across the U.S., from body-worn cameras to cell-site simulators. Stay informed using the Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org/atlas
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Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Yesterday, Spc Sarah Becstrom was laid to rest in West Virginia at a VA National Cemetery. Surprisingly none of the major major news media mention it. No flags were lower to half staff. Well the Convicted FElon keeps the news focus on him. www.wvva.com/2025/12/10/s...
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Spc. Sarah Beckstrom laid to rest with full military honors at W.Va. National Cemetery
Spc. Sarah Beckstrom was laid to rest with full military honors Tuesday in Grafton.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/12/2025
The Kyiv Independent has selected 10 of the best books published in 2025 related to Ukraine. Curious readers should use this list as a guide on the path to discovering even more books from this and previous years, with the anticipation of what is to come in 2026 as well.
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Looking for the 10 best Ukraine-related books of 2025? We’ve got you
The year 2025 brought us more books about and from Ukraine that carry an inescapable heaviness, with war present on almost every page. Lives once shaped by literary ambitions continue to be cut short ...
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Pierce @pwtulley.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sign on a door, "DUE TO RECENT EVENTS OUIIA BOARDS ARE NO LONGER PERMITTED ON THE PATIO"
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“There are about a thousand of us.”
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”
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The controversy over daylight saving time: evidence for and against

Michael C Antle. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2023.

Abstract

Purpose of review: Biannual clock changes to and from daylight saving time have been pervasive in many societies for over 50 years. Governments are considering abandoning this practice and choosing a single permanent time.

Recent findings: Our endogenous circadian clock follows our photoperiod, which changes over the year. The acute disruption caused by changing our clocks can affect safety (motor vehicle and on the job accidents), health (cardiovascular disease, drug overdoses, suicide), and human behavior (sport performance, generosity, and procrastination). Although abandoning the clock change could help avoid these acute harms, choosing the wrong permanent time could lead to chronic circadian misalignment, which could have even more profound implications for health, safety, and human behavior.

Summary: Ceasing the biannual clock change may be a…
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Katarina Hunt @katarinahunt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Why do people buy pizza with EBT? Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money. It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.
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ACLU of Maine @aclumaine.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Houlton officials used surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition technology to track people and vehicles. This clearly violated state law restricting when state and local governments can use this technology. Only after Houlton residents threatened to sue did the town remove the cameras.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I'm banned/shadow-banned all over the internet, so if you like this article, please share it -- and if you really like it, please subscribe! Thank you
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 23/10/2025
Since Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidates and "dark money" groups have raised more money than Republicans--often doubling them. So much of the Dem money is wasted. Publishing a piece on this Sunday explaining these graphs and much more. I need your help to make the piece viral. Thanks!
Infographic titled “Republican Ecosystem.” Four large curved arrows form a clockwise loop: Donors at the top (magenta), Campaigns on the right (gold), Advocacy Media at the bottom (blue-purple), and Activists on the left (sage green). Each arrow feeds the next, depicting a self-reinforcing cycle. From the Campaigns segment, a smaller gold arrow points outward to a label “Mainstream Media” beside a purple color swatch, indicating spillover influence on non-partisan outlets. Credit “Matthew Sheffield, flux.community” appears at bottom left.Infographic titled “Democratic Ecosystem.” Three large curved arrows form a clockwise loop: Donors at the top (magenta), Campaigns on the right (gold), and Activists on the left (sage green). Together they create an incomplete circle with a visible gap at the bottom. A small blue square labeled Advocacy Media sits outside the loop, connected by a thin arrow from Activists, showing weak integration. To the right, a large blue box labeled Mainstream Media represents the dominant external media sphere. Credit at lower left reads “Matthew Sheffield, flux.community.” The design contrasts with the “Republican Ecosystem” version by emphasizing the Democratic side’s weaker feedback loop between activists, donors, and media.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors. Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC. Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio. The government has been shut down for 22 days.
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trucatsoul.bsky.social @trucatsoul.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The director of the BOP recently sent out an email stating that the president, attorney general, & OMB have found a way to pay 0007 series employees. It implied that this would happen during the shutdown, as some employees are not showing up for work bc they aren’t being paid. Is this plan legal?
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