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ryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

FIFA did it last year. I’m sure there is some other organization eager to di a little toadying this year.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

years ago i dubbed this sort of shit “throwing a trumper tantrum” and i stand by it

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

John Roberts has a lot to answer for.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as Well as Immigrants

The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Those professionally printed “MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW” at the RNC told the story. It was pointed out AT THE TIME that mass deportations would require exactly what is being done. People DID vote for this. They just assumed it wouldn’t be done to THEM.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He’s been a Russian asset for years. Whether he’s aware of it is, at this stage, immaterial.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/10/2026

Have they tried getting eight different collections agencies to harass him and judges from multiple counties to send notices to appear?

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So uh, American people. You ok? Can we talk in private

an orange cat is sitting with his arms folded under his load body. his face looks concerned and a bit discomfited

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So a book with two gay penguins will traumatize kids but a public execution wouldn't???

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

NO ONE “deserves” to be brutalized. No one.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just a reminder: the Constitution applies to EVERYONE in the USA. Not just citizens.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People like Elon Musk who view human beings as a “biological boot loader for digital superintelligence” should not be in decision-making positions that affect the future of humanity.

Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence.
Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable
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Elon Musk
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Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader
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Elon was calling it SI in 2014
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Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. U...
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now there's a man who's never been pregnant!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There were a couple of episodes where the pilot decided to commit suicide - one in Africa & one in the Himalayas, & the narration on the 2nd one included the info that had the industry known about the 1st the 2nd could have been avoided, let’s tell others about things like this in future, OK?

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I occasionally binge on “Airplane Disasters” (or something like), because they’re puzzles, in a way, & the post-disaster orgs are trying to figure out what happened and how it can be avoided in future (here is where I whimper in DOGE).

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Murrow's Girl @restingbeachface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And yet he's not the most dangerous one and neither is trump. It's Vought. Director of OMB. He controls the money and it's always money first.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will not. This is one of the things I think she’s wrong about, and she is otherwise a supporter of trans rights. People are complicated.

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Janice Braden, Associate Member of EU @janicebraden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Want to share a lovely good news story. Strap in - it’s a little long but real and worth it, I think. I attend a weekly pub trivia game with a quizmaster named N-. It’s near the university so gets a lot of fierce, smart people but N- is the counterpart, a funny carpenter who pronounces…1

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a friend who earnestly believes that trans women have an unfair advantage over cis women in spirts. Asking her about trans women who never went through male puberty doesn’t help. Noting that it’s only in rarified levels of athletics that it might even be an issue doesn’t help. It’s crazy.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On a side note, we have the senior Senator from Alabama apparently feeling that having been a coach is the really important part. With him, it probably is. Alabama, man.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twitter not laughing at your jokes, buy Twitter. HBO owns streaming rights to an unflattering exposé, buy a piece of HBO. Government regulations threaten your businesses, buy the government. Elon Musk seems determined to be a case study in the problem with unfettered wealth.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They keep using this line and it's nonsense for many reasons, but also, if that's truly the case, there are only about a dozen "fraudsters" per state: the insurers. No one else could benefit from this particular no-claims "fraud." So where are the prosecutions of health insurers? 🤔

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Creating enough desperate and angry people who will vote for an obvious liar who said he’d fix things day 1.

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think if you check, you’ll see it’s a right.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No, they didn't "go rogue." They were given instructions that led them to do this. Or they were inadequately confined to particular areas. We need some serious safety experts looking at these incidents, not the AI believers.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another reason ALL his gaudy gewgaws have to be taken down/removed when he’s gone.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IMO, the Trump Administration has lost any assumption of good faith/compliance/whatever. Someone needs to go to jail. My preference is the oathbreaker Trump, but I’ll take a factotum.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My travel bag includes a dry toiletries bag - tooth powder, bar soap, etc. so I don’t have to remember to drag it out for TSA.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

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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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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not to mention the summary function almost certainly is AI, which we know lies.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Afterwards, workers have a proven employment record, $ in the bank, and maybe a better idea of where they want to go next - college, trade school, apprenticeship, back home, whatever. Getting credits toward that should be part of it.

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It has been my dream that the USA have mandatory service - 2 years for 18-20yos to work away with people from other places and backgrounds. Available service from military to Civilian ConservationCorps type stuff to whatever - places where people with energy and ready to learn news skills can help.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ATTENTION, NERDS ANOTHER DINO-MUMMY HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IT IS A T-REX AND THE PALEONTOLOGISTS WORKING ON IT ARE TEASING INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE OF FEATHERS THIS IS NOT A DRILL www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ0dg...

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Rex Jr | A T. Rex Mummy May Reignite the Feather Debate #animals #dinosaur #evolution #fossil

YouTube video by Zeke Darwin

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Et Tu Brutus @kton11.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He wants to be like putin and show him he can do anything. I hope I live to see the day when this fuck is locked up in a Maximum security prison

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VCarlson @vcarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Back when he was up fir his SCOTUS seat, I took an instant dislike to him. As in, I didn’t REALLY think he had bodies in his basement, but I wouldn’t have been surprised, either. Turns out he’s worse.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.

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