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brendan @schlage.town · 4h
FYI for folks looking for a good substack alternative :)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canada's white nationalists are parroting racist, anti-Indigenous talking points that right-wing politicians and media have been normalizing. Second Sons Canada, the fascist fight club, demonstrated on Tk̓emlúps lands over the weekend with a banner that read “got bones?” Here’s how we got here:
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For some of these majors, governments are a primary employer. So this rather self-defeatingly deters people from entering those fields, meaning 5 years down the line, oops, there’s a shortage of qualified teachers & social workers prepared to work for public-sector wages.
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love to see it.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
As the Africa Space Expo closes in Abidjan, African innovators are showing what the continent can build.
aljazeera.com
Africa's space ambitions are moving from policy to practice
As the Africa Space Expo closes in Abidjan, African innovators are showing what the continent can build.
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Greg Casar @gregcasar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The CEO of Starbucks makes 1,700 times what the baristas make. He commutes by private jet. In other words, Starbucks can afford a fair contract. I'm boycotting Starbucks until they sign one. No contract, no coffee.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Get rich or die trying. They get rich, you die.
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atomic bog @jessicapancakes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
for regular americans: Motorola Re/Max AirBnB Expedia TripAdvisor
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aminata Seck was taken by ICE at Louisville’s Airport on August 7 during a trip to attend the HBCU all-star game in New York. She is a senior and last year started 20 of 26 games, earning 3rd-team all-conference honors and an SIAC Elite 16 award for academic achievement.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kentucky State’s Aminata Seck has reportedly experienced seizures while in ICE custody, in addition to dealing with an ACL injury, for which she received only ibuprofen, and was not hospitalized until September 21, after the story first broke. She has been moved to four different ICE facilities
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 27/09/2026
OPINION: "In at least 36 states, opponents of the technology have taken matters into their own hands, destroying or impairing ALPRs rather than wait for local governments to step in," G. Patrick O'Brien writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-the-...
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Opinion | The American Revolt Against Flock Cameras Mirrors the Boston Tea Party
G. Patrick O’Brien writes about how the Flock camera pushback is similar to how American colonists rejected growing British surveillance.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
100% wealth tax over $1B
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess no one’s fearing the turtle this year.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Purge and replacement, erosion of norms, changes to incentive structure, etc., etc. It is under-remembered & post-January 6 we had a care-taker government w/Trump checked out & Joint Chiefs issuing a letter reminding servicemembers of oath to constitution & saying Biden was next president.
military.com
In Unprecedented Joint Letter, Top Military Brass Denounces US Capitol Riot
In a one-page memo, the members of the Joint Chiefs told the military that Joe Biden will be their next commander in chief.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another Factor: Bad Candidates talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Another Factor: Bad Candidates
Here’s a secondary issue we’re currently seeing in a number of races...
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
I kept walking to my seat a few rows behind him. His staff or security are not happy with me. But Oz holds a position of public trust and is using it to make life unlivable for human beings in America. I should be the least of his problems. If you see Oz, let him have it. Let them eat crudités.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/09/2026
to succeed in republican politics you have to be a terrible human being but it is still remarkable just how low some of these assholes will go sending the cops to arrest a pregnant woman in front of her two year old over a fifty dollar medical bill is just unconscionable
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Futurism @futurism.com · 25/09/2026
This is so gross.
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Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy's Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process
YouTuber Elliott Choy found that one of his videos was turned into a race-swapped YouTube ad by prediction platform Kalshi.
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And... wow... Iowa, where Dems were 20 pts underwater among new registrant Gen Z when Trump took office and now are 20 pts up.
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seeing the Emerson poll this morning that showed Trump's net approval dropping 50 pts among Gen Z since he took office made me curious about voter registration trends among those voters in key states. Starting with PA...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A lot of media organizations sponsoring polls are terrified of overestimating Democrats. GOP consultants looking at private polls probably want to know the truth even if it's ugly. Wouldn't surprise me at all if GOP private polling looks worse for them.
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As Steve points out, this is Trump’s 40th emergency docket application in 20 months. That’s one per fortnight. bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UNH just released two Senate polls of major races: Maine: —Troy Jackson leads Collins 51/47. (This is the 3rd ME poll today, after the NYT's Collins +3 and YouGov's Jackson +5.) New Hampshire: —Pappas leads Sununu 50/42. (This is the 2nd NH poll today, after the NY had Pappas up 5.)
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE is scouting men driving to work early in the morning, but DoorDashers are most at risk while they drive all day for work. Read more from the ICE Watch newsletter: lataco.com/ice-watch-dr... By @eltragon.bsky.social
A masked ICE agent looks down at his phone. 

Headline reads "ICE Watch: Driving To Work or For DoorDash? They’re Hunting You"
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
There's what DHS said...and then there's reality ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Screenshot of the first three paragraphs of the linked Balls and Strikes article, reading as follows:

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on the ground who reported injuries to his head, neck, and teeth. Soon, the officers learned that the injured man was a U.S. citizen, and his assailants were federal immigration agents.

The Department of Homeland Security put out a statement on Tuesday claiming that the beaten man “resembled the target” of an immigration enforcement operation, and that he was “not cooperative” with agents’ investigation. “Once the individual finally identified himself,” said DHS, immigration officers “left the scene without further incident.” 

A video of the incident shows that immigration officers pinned the man to the ground while he repeatedly yelled, “I’m a fucking U.S. citizen,” and while concerned witnesses asked why the agents were “fucking him up.” Eventually, the agents drove off without rendering medical aid. People tried to comfort the man, who remained motionless on the ground.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
every day it seems a brand new sentence is written to describe the state of the world
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The SNAP stuff was the part that they allowed to take effect before the midterms. That gives you a sense of just how awful the Medicaid stuff they are holding until after the midterms will be.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nuclear regulation developed for low-chance, high-risk scenarios. Similar to the risk of AI. A simple place to start is mandatory incident reporting. If something goes wrong, everyone gets to know. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
How Much Would You Pay to Prevent the AI Apocalypse?
And what economists say we should spend. Hint: we're nowhere close.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OMG
Mr Albanese said he had a "frank" discussion with OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman, saying the company took three months to notify the government of the breach and, when it did, the notification was in an email sent to the Services Australia public inbox.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Yes, the person tasked with convincing the public that it’s reasonable to ignore reams of evidence and end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills after the midterms is named… Overton
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uniongal.bsky.social @uniongal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well that’s quite a headline from Australia.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 23/09/2026
Just a reminder to any senator saying Don Jr. is not selling access to the presidency: Don Jr. started a private club called Executive Branch within months of Trump retaking office, with appearances by Trump cabinet members. How much more obvious does it need to get?
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Texas is a voter suppression state, not a red state
votebeat.org
Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 23/09/2026
🚨 LAUNCH — VoteHub’s 2026 Early Vote Tracker is LIVE. Track ballot returns and, for the first time, see who we think is actually AHEAD right now, plus what the trailing candidate needs on Election Day to catch up. Rolling out for every battleground Senate and governor race.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026
Big subtext: Hamilton is proving to be a hard target for the GOP. When Vance attacked his faith, a local UMC bishop and 120 UMC pastors issued statements defending him. When his competitor Sen. Marshall called him a pastor who is "too woke for Kansas," Marshall's *own pastor* suggested otherwise.

But the attacks have also revealed the positive reputation Hamilton has forged among his co-religionists. Last week, David Wilson, the United Methodist bishop who oversees Hamilton’s regional conference, published a statement dismissing attacks on Hamilton by Vance and Marshall as “inaccurate and unwarranted,” describing them as an “invective against the church, of which Adam is the founding pastor.”“The language used, in effect, criticizes fellow Christians merely for living up to what Jesus taught in the Gospel texts,” wrote Wilson, who oversees the Great Plains Annual Conference.

A few days later, 120 UMC pastors from across the state signed a public letter to Marshall, urging the senator and the Vice President to tone down the rhetoric.

“When you attack Adam’s pastoral ministry, his home congregation, and our denomination as a whole, you sow seeds of division and dissent,” read the letter. “You tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”

And when Marshall derided Hamilton in August as a “megachurch pastor that’s too woke for Kansas,” Hamilton’s campaign quickly noted that the pastor of Marshall’s own non-denominational church has publicly referred to Hamilton as a “middle-of-the-road pastor who is willing to listen to all sides.”
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm from Johnson City, Kansas, about 100 miles southwest of Dodge City. This is horrific. The only light in this situation is seeing so many people not okay with it.
Aaron Estabrook.


Dodge City is my hometown. What's happening there today is hard to watch.

ICE is conducting what residents describe as a multiday operation across Southwest Kansas, including Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal. The Liberal, KS Vice Mayor reportedly watched as many as 60 of her neighbors were detained and taken away on buses today. Educators in Dodge City are worried about students returning home from school to find their parents gone.

Think about what that means for a child they ask.

Residents report large white buses staged in these communities and ICE agents stationed at meatpacking plants during shift changes, spreading panic through an industry already under stress. Unmarked vehicles recklessly cutting across the cities, pinning cars on main routes and back alleys.

Peaceful protesters have gathered along Wyatt Earp Boulevard near El Capitan, with people also gathering at the fairgrounds in Garden City this evening.

There are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windowsThere are deeply troubling reports and images of agents breaking car windows while babies were inside in car seats. Families are also sharing videos they say show ICE detaining someone born and raised in Garden City. Those accounts need independent verification and answers. We still don't have a confirmed regional count, and I cannot verify suggestions that hundreds were detained today.

But the accounts coming from these communities describe parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends and employees being taken away. Calling an operation a crackdown on "the most dangerous criminals” does not establish that everyone swept up in it fits that description.

Of course, some people are pleased to see this day come. I am not. Federal agents tearing families apart in our state inspires nothing in me but grief for those involved, especially the kids.

And who benefits from the damage left behind?

Removing workers and frightening entire communities risks making agricultural labor harder to find, disrupting meat production and putting more pressure on food prices. Small businesses lose customers. Families lose income. Schools are left helping children cope with fear andare left helping children cope with fear and uncertainty. Local governments lose too. Immigrants pay taxes; sales, property, income.

For my entire life, immigration has been part of Southwest Kansas. Immigrant families have worked in our packing plants, helped sustain our farms, opened businesses, raised children and made these communities their home. They are part of the place I grew up. I loved being neighbors with them and growing up with their children.

I want to know how many people were taken, why they were detained and what is happening to their children. These communities deserve answers, and every person detained deserves due process and humane treatment.

I grew up understanding that people came to Southwest Kansas to work hard and build a life. Watching families who did exactly that being torn apart feels foreign to everything I have known about home. This is beyond politics. It's human decency. I pray that no tragic event occurs and human dignity is honored by all involved.
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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE has been abducting van loads of people in Liberal, Dodge City, and Garden City, KS this week. www.kake.com/home/ice-con...
kake.com
ICE conducting operations in southwest Kansas
A person in Liberal says she has seen numerous vans from the Department of Homeland Security, with one of those vans filled with people.
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Status @status.news · 23/09/2026
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
status.news
The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
DHS keeps tweeting at me instead of answering a simple question: How does shooting a DoorDash driver in the back in Austin make anyone safer?
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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
His family said that "he complained of missed meals and shots and not drinking enough water to control his type 1 diabetes as he was moved between facilities in multiple states." He is the 3rd detainee to die in less than 6 months at an ICE facility in Louisiana Source:
nbcnews.com
Costa Rican man complained of lack of care for diabetes before his death in ICE custody, family says
Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena’s condition worsened after he arrived at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, and he died less than a week later, his family said.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These refugees have been stuck on base for 5 years. You may have read that the administration tried to repatriate them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They've also been facing missile attacks from Iran. Our govt has set a Sept. 30 deadline for dealing with them. afghanevac.org/cas-facts
afghanevac.org
CAS Facts — #AfghanEvac
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 23/09/2026
The numbers don't lie bsky.app/profile/alex...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/09/2026
Celebrities at the Pentagon: How unusual was the Paul brothers’ visit? aje.news/exy5qx
Celebrities at the Pentagon: How unusual was the Paul brothers’ visit?
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Staffers at Politico and Business Insider have united for the first time to accuse their parentco of undermining its own commitment to press freedom with a ceremony honoring Peter Thiel. Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/axel-sprin...
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Axel’s Thiel Tempest
The publisher is set to honor Trump ally Peter Thiel this week—and Status has learned that staffers at Politico and Business Insider are pushing back, accusing their parentco of undermining its own co...
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