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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/10/2026
18 months after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, the Trump administration still hasn’t brought charges against him. Now, he’s taking his case to the Supreme Court. He joined @akelalacy.bsky.social on The Intercept Briefing to explain. youtube.com/shorts/miHU-...
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Mahmoud Khalil On His Fight For Justice
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026
Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yam, Yam, Yams
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate Democrats | Robert Reich
Americans are backing progressives not because they want socialism, but because they want candidates who will fight for the working class
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
lol this post is almost a year old. Truly the slowest social media site in history. Hey folks did you figure out Jeffries yet? 🙃
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
With today’s news of his sharing a cuppa w/ Kushner, it seems apt to repeat what I noted for last Sunday: It’s not just that Jeffries’s positions are unrepresentative of his district, caucus & country, it’s that he’s lousy at the politics. No one wants Kush in the coalition. Who you doin’ this for?
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We don't live in a democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Postal Service Publishes Finalized Plan to Restrict Mail Ballots (Gift Article)
The plan complies with President Trump’s executive order to restrict mail voting, which was blocked by federal courts and is under review at the Supreme Court.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...
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Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)
Is Kansas just the beginning?
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Weak.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/08/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social reacts to masked ICE agents pulling a gun on a woman and falsely accusing her of trying to run them over: “This is horrifying... this is not how things should work in a free country.”
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If tech giant Google has its way, residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana, may have to say goodbye to over 4 acres of federally protected wetland as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
Google is requesting authorization to fill in a chunk of precious wetlands to build three data center buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 07/08/2026
He was seizing. Ambulance was already called. ICE “released” him anyway, mid-emergency, so his death wouldn’t count as theirs. No report. No notice to Congress. Menendez found out by accident. 3rd death at Delaney Hall. This isn’t a loophole. It’s a system built to erase people. Make some noise!
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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Kinda wild that this is like a minor foot note in our media discourse that the president's refugee policy is just blatantly white supremacist. Future gens will look back at this period like "wtf"
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Ex-DoJ lawyer fired by Todd Blanche urges senators to reject nomination
Liz Oyer tells of how she refused to ‘rubber-stamp a political favor’ in gun rights case involving Trump ally Mel Gibson
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Neel Shelat @shelatneel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Teams that are unbeaten in the World Cup: CABO VERDE 🇨🇻🇨🇻
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It kinda got lost in the madness, but the federal conspiracy case against anti-ICE activists in Minnesota - the Minneapolis 15 - is a big deal It's not just the 1st Amendment abuse. It's part of their plan to crush dissent ahead of a stolen election My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up | Will Bunch
An outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities”
Peter Thiel on stage during a conference for Palantir. (Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg)
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Activities such as speeding, walking a dog not on a leash, or fishing without a valid license may now serve as the basis for the government filing a civil denaturalization complaint in federal courts." From new TRAC report on rising denaturalizations. tracreports.org/reports/774/
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/06/2026
Just a constant horror show as the privacy of trans patients is constantly eroded. As a former patient of Mount Sinai, this is a massive betrayal to their patients. Your medical records are not safe with them. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...
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NYC parents say Mount Sinai plans to share trans children's records with Trump administration
“ I was blindsided by this because we're not even receiving care there anymore,” said Dawn Gabriel, one of the parents.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Albanian resort plan sets off days of protests
The protests, raising concerns about conservation, transparency and the project’s ties to the Trump family, began Sunday in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
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111publishing.bsky.social @111publishing.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE !!! Today's Midterm Elections in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Idaho, Oregon, and Pennsylvania .
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2026
NEW: Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bids for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers overlooked or rejected. With @inquirer.com
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With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers
Pennsylvania courts allow attorneys to argue against their convicted clients’ bid for justice. It has resulted in people spending years or decades in prison before being freed based on issues lawyers ...
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our people are failing to stop them.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/05/2026
This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Finally there’s a tiny bit of actual reporting on these murders. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site
High concentration of toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in groundwater at former military facility in Louisiana
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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A recent column I wrote as the Stars & Stripes ombudsman began: “Pete Hegseth doesn’t want you to see cartoons in this newspaper anymore.” Apparently the Pentagon also doesn’t want you to hear from me anymore about threats to editorial independence. They fired me. www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out
An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I keep screaming from the rooftops that print news is the future and we better start figuring out what that looks like, and literally no one in the news industry believes me.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Venezuela gave him a “win.” He loves Venezuela.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Based on wall writing, it looks like this is Peru.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/03/2026
NEW FROM ME: A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, last week. None of the migrants have any ties to the country. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...
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More MAGA billionaires linked to private jet used for ICE flight to African prison
A Gulfstream jet that appears to be co-owned by Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi flew four migrants to a prison in Eswatini.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Balint to Noem: "You're the secretary of DHS -- for now. And you think you're immune from accountability. But I promise you this: one day he is not gonna be president anymore. And when that day comes, we will still be here. And in hearings like this, we are going to continue to prove your guilt."
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What kind of soulless POS would do something like this? It’s beyond belief. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Refugee released by Border Patrol found dead, sparking outrage
Surveillance video obtained by The Post shows Border Patrol agents releasing the partially blind refugee, who went missing for days before being found dead.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 14/12/2025
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.
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The West’s vanishing porcupines - High Country News
Scientists are racing to figure out why porcupines are disappearing from their former stomping grounds.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If there is a transcript for the bedbug remedy?
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
THE ONE PROCESS NOW GOING ON THAT WILL TAKE MILLIONS OF YEARS TO CORRECT IS THE LOSS OF GENETIC AND SPECIES DIVERSITY BY THE DESTRUCTION OF NATURAL HABITATS. THIS IS THE FOLLY OUR DESCENDANTS ARE LEAST LIKELY TO FORGIVE US. -Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia, 1984
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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UpbeatCat @upbeatcat.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
There should always be an option for silence so I can continue with whatever I’m doing in peace until someone comes on the line.
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