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Enigmatic. Textbook enigmatic. Pro-democracy. No party preference. Southern California. I like nerdy things and some sports ball. Reposts = reminder to self to read the article. 🇺🇲

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19h
The DHS Secretary is riffing on the “great replacement theory” - a white nationalist conspiracy theory that holds the elites (or other conspirators - in this case, “socialists”) are set on changing society through immigration and illegal voting. The GRT is everywhere on the American right now.
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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 20h
PS3 era graphics
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump: "We just sent out to the victims of the Democrat fraud checks for $500 each, including 139,000 families from Texas. Pretty good. You'll get the money within two days."
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 19h
Oh great he’s gonna do a Berlin Wall after the Arch
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is an absolutely horrifying read. There must be justice for this.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 19h
NYT: Mr. Trump may have been extending an invite to his audience to view the “Rocky Horror Picture Show”
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19h
jfc Mar-a-Lago face is nightmare fuel. Why would people do this to themselves 2.boredpanda.com/mar-a-lago-f...
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10 “Mar-a-Lago” Face Transformations That Left People Utterly Stunned
“A lot of us who support the president want to look our best. It makes you feel like you’re part of something."
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Morgan Fischer @morgfisch.bsky.social · 23h
Democrat congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was hit over the head and raped in Maricopa County while repairing a damaged campaign sign in August. "I need to let women know that it's okay to talk about it," she told me. Full story: www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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CNN @cnn.com · 06/10/2026
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore said President Donald Trump blocked him from speaking at a Tuesday event near Baltimore meant to unveil a new multi-billion-dollar investment in submarine manufacturing. A White House official did not dispute the account. cnn.it/4zddqN6
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the last hours of Noem’s tenure, her agency delivered a windfall to a political donor by buying five airplanes from his firm at a substantial markup. @haleaziz.bsky.social @fahrenthold.bsky.social @nicknehamas.bsky.social @tylerpager.bsky.social @nirajc.bsky.social 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
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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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 04/10/2026
For the last two days, I’ve been inside the Christian nationalist “Holy Wars” conference - with access I never imagined possible. I am still processing everything I’ve experienced. More soon at ConfrontTheHate.com. Subscribe now!
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
The graph shows the cumulative number of awards made by month across this fiscal year, as compared to the last 6 fiscal years. The line for this year is total flat until June, but then finally gets up to 91 by October. In prior years the increase starts building earlier and ends on average in the 700-800 range (with variability, last year was only between 400-500).
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit a Trump donor and Middle Eastern businessmen with ties to Witkoff and Kushner. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most powerful animating force in my former political party is white Christian Nationalism.👇
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
Impeach Hegseth on January 3. I don’t care if you don’t have enough senate votes to convict and remove.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
With Paramount and Warner Bros. under his control, David Ellison will now run an empire of unprecedented breadth in Hollywood. nyti.ms/47haFhJ
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NO FLUID was found in Nolan Wells' lungs or airways, per the autopsy report by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner. How do you die by "accidental drowning" if there is no water in your lungs?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Haha. This guy actually ran for governor of California. He's an Oath Keeper and the kind of guy that creeps around goth clubs inviting people to his key parties. It's like if Meatloaf and Greg Bovino had a baby.
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Until farmers couldn’t get fertilizer or “potash,”couldn’t afford diesel… they loved Trump. They loved Trump’s hatred of immigrants (whom worked their crops), they loved his white nationalism, racism, misogyny and cruelty. I feel sorry for Americans but not for farmers who voted for this.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fascist ideology is inherently self-defeating and ass-backwards. Just look at the MAGA ethnic cleansing campaign. Out of pure racist hatred, the USA is kidnapping random hardworking, tax-paying, society-contributing innocents off the street and *paying* foreign authoritarians to torture them.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CNN is about to travel the same dark path of WaPo and CBS News. They will say it's not true. They will ask you to ignore what you see and disbelieve what you hear. Instead, I suggest you support independent media. You can start with Democracy Docket but there are many others. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week, election denier podcaster Joe Oltmann, during an interview on his show with Wayne Allyn Root — a prominent advocate of Trump declaring a national security emergency for elections — suggested that Trump "is gonna need to make a Julius Caesar moment" over declaring a national emergency.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On a podcast on a Proud Boys-affiliated channel yesterday, white nationalist organization Patriot Front founder Thomas Rousseau said the organization has "been active in quiet networking with & in supporting candidates," from "small city commissioner positions all the way up to congressional runs."
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
By campaigning for pro-Trump Senate candidates, George W. Bush is working to prop up the dictator. It’s long been obvious to many of us that Bush is a piece of crap. This is further evidence.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No words, except for Go Vote.
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Loather @loather.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Poll “died on toilet” you cowards
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Video of this incident shared on Facebook This appears to be the end of the incident. I'm told Evanston police responded and the man was a U.S. citizen and was taken to a local hospital Police made contact with the agents near Dodge/Brummel Story with more info TK momentarily
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 21/09/2026
So they beat up a citizen for refusing to provide ID Papers, please
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3436):
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Updated 5:18 PM EDT, September 20, 2026 @apnews.com: "The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times, said Mike Siegel, who represents Austin’s District 7."
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tear it down in broad daylight
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