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Lisa Jayne

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nobody wants this. Polling shows that Americans want to protect public lands, and certainly don't want data centers built on them.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.courthousenews.com/north-caroli... This is really important guys
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North Carolina governor loses election board appointment struggle
In a win for the GOP, state appeals judges upheld a law transferring the power to appoint and remove election officials from the governor to the state auditor.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2025
Have you noticed that Trump only won the presidency when he had a woman opponent? Both times. That says more about us as a country and our failure to recognize the power of women than it does about him as a man.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
475 South Korean nationals taken into custody by Trump‘s immigration authorities because they had the audacity to be WORKING in a $7.6 billion plant that’s the biggest economic development project in the history of Georgia. If you’re South Korea, would YOU continue to invest in a place like this?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2025
This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Let that sink in for a sec.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
In this Ohio diner, the parliamentarian still means George Clinton. But they do know this: Senate Republicans need to fire any and all pesky bureaucrats that try to stop them from tearing the roof off the motherfucker.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
“US Bombs Iran – Is There an Antiwar Party in This Country?” - Spencer Ackerman ‬⁩for Zeteo:
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US Bombs Iran – Is There an Antiwar Party in This Country?
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Text card, reads: "Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
No, @nytimes.com, an anti-vaxx grifter is no longer recommending #Covid vaccines. Many of us in the US with actual medical credentials still recommend it.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
3 guys, none with infectious disease or pedatric expertise, just ran roughshod over normal procedures to block COVID shots for kids, pregnant people. This is so awful & insane & we should treat it as such. Reporters, you're on notice. Both sides this at your peril & watch your credibitlity evaporate
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Lisa Jayne @velvetpitchfork.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Listen to the historians (and Toni Morrison). youtu.be/IXR9PByA9SY?...
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We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S. | NYT Opinion
YouTube video by The New York Times
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
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The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2025
This is being overlooked. It’s a must read.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
‪HEY: who is going to let the seniors and disabled know that they need to create an X account and who is going to walk them through the how AND who is going to help them upload their most private information to give to ELON so they can prove their identity?!‬ ‪wtf. Seriously, WTAF!? ‬
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The Trump White House’s message—“Do not retaliate and you will be rewarded”—echoes coercive patterns often linked to narcissistic abuse. Trump, a convicted felon found liable for sexual abuse, continues using power to reframe submission as virtue and dissent as threat.
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Lisa Jayne @velvetpitchfork.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Pretty sure.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Michigan Mama @mamadoingsomething.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Love seeing all the people who care. Big cities are amazing, but this bravery is what makes my heart burst.
Pic of about 50 protesters in Keyser,WV, pop 4850. The deepest of red territory.
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump chose to attend a Saudi-sponsored golf tournament rather than welcome home the remains of four soldiers. The vice president didn’t attended either. They don’t even pretend to care about service members. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT US.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/04/2025
The @financialtimes.com is not mincing words "America’s astonishing act of self-harm" on.ft.com/3YjtOLV
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Golden Age
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: In the North Carolina Supreme Court election contest, the state appeals court reverses decision dismissing Griffin's 65k ballot challenges. Some voters will have 15 days to cure their challenged ballots or have them rejected. More to come.
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🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2025
me to the united states: this could be us but you playin’
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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Lisa Jayne @velvetpitchfork.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...),  posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
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Lynn Teague @lynnteague.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This isn’t just anti-DEI, removing people they think were celebrated only because of their color or gender. It is saying that no matter how truly important one’s achievements, if you aren’t a white male you don’t matter. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order
Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025
"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. RogersDefense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers Defense.gov
404 - Page Not Foundhttps://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...
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USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks
The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025
Republicans, Democrats, Independents - Trump expects us all to lay down while he steamrolls over our lives and liberties. Fuck that, and fuck him.
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Forgotten Man
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/03/2025
@therickwilson.bsky.social has an urgent message for the Dems: SHUT IT DOWN! Watch:
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Rick Wilson Has an URGENT Message for Chuck Schumer: SHUT IT DOWN!
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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John.... BLOCKED IF YOU DM,NO POSTS, SOLICITATIONS, PORN @benbrookjohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@paulvandermeer.bsky.social good morning Paul 😎
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a poster that says protesting is not a disturbance to the peace and corruption and intimidation is
ALT: a poster that says protesting is not a disturbance to the peace and corruption and intimidation is
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Lisa Jayne @velvetpitchfork.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Are you freaking kidding me? www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/p...
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Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office | CNN Politics
As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for ...
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Lisa Jayne @velvetpitchfork.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I love this graphic. 🇨🇦
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